Conveners
Session 2 - Screening facilities and low background detectors
- Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)
Session 2 - Screening facilities and low background detectors
- Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)
Matthias Laubenstein
(INFN - LNGS)
10/04/2013, 09:55
oral presentation
Dr
Gerd Heusser
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)
10/04/2013, 10:20
Screening facilities and low background detectors
oral presentation
A new germanium gamma spectrometer (GIOVE) has been added to the screening facility of the MPI for Nuclear Physics to meet the needs for material selection for the double beta and dark matter projects Gerda Phase II [1] and XENON 1T [2]. It bridges the gap in sensitivity between the GeMPI spectrometers at LNGS [3, 4] and the older generation low background spectrometers at the Heidelberg low...
Thomas Langford
(University of Maryland)
10/04/2013, 10:40
Screening facilities and low background detectors
oral presentation
The University of Maryland and National Institute of Technology developed
the Fast Neutron Spectrometers (FaNS) as high efficiency, full-energy
reconstructing, neutron detectors. The first generation, FaNS-1, consisted of 18 liters of plastic scintillator, separated in six optically decoupled segments, and six $^3$He proportional counters. The detector operated under the principle of...
Dr
Ian Lawson
(SNOLAB)
10/04/2013, 11:30
Screening facilities and low background detectors
oral presentation
Many of the experiments currently searching for dark matter, studying properties of neutrinos or searching for neutrinoless double beta decay require very low levels of radioactive backgrounds both in their own construction materials and in the surrounding environment. These low background levels are required so that the experiments can achieve the required sensitivities for their searches....
Keenan Thomas
(UC Berkeley- Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, LBNL - NSD)
10/04/2013, 11:50
Screening facilities and low background detectors
oral presentation
The Low Background Facility (LBF) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California operates in two unique facilities—locally within a carefully-constructed, low background cave; and remotely at an underground location (~500 m.w.e) nearby in Oroville, CA. These facilities provide a variety of gamma spectroscopy services to low background experiments primarily in the form of...
