Speaker
Ben MORGAN
(University of Warwick, UK)
Summary
The COBRA experiment aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a large array of Cadmium Zinc Telluride crystals. Radioisotopes together with muons and neutrons provide the major sources of background for such a
search. A GEANT4-based simulation has been developed for COBRA to understand these background sources in the current experiment and to provide a performance modelling tool for future detectors. This talk will describe the COBRA simulation and highlight two aspects; the use of the Radioactive Decay Module for simulating single and multiple isotope decays, and the generation of event vertices in many small volumes.
