Low Radioactivity Techniques Workshop - LRT2013

Session

Session 2 - Screening facilities and low background detectors

2

10 Apr 2013, 09:55

E. Fermi auditorium (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

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)

68. Overview of the screening activities with HPGe detectors

Matthias Laubenstein (INFN - LNGS)

10/04/2013, 09:55

oral presentation

4. GIOVE, a new low-background Ge-spectrometer at MPI-K

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...

54. A Fast Neutron Spectrometer for Underground Science

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...

45. Low Background Counting Techniques At SNOLAB

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....

25. Low Background Counting at the LBNL Low Background Facility

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...