Material screening and selection for XENON100
Instrumentation and Detectors
2011-09-12 v2
Abstract
Results of the extensive radioactivity screening campaign to identify materials for the construction of XENON100 are reported. This Dark Matter search experiment is operated underground at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy. Several ultra sensitive High Purity Germanium detectors (HPGe) have been used for gamma ray spectrometry. Mass spectrometry has been applied for a few low mass plastic samples. Detailed tables with the radioactive contaminations of all screened samples are presented, together with the implications for XENON100.
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@article{arxiv.1103.5831,
title = {Material screening and selection for XENON100},
author = {XENON100 Collaboration and E. Aprile and K. Arisaka and F. Arneodo and A. Askin and L. Baudis and A. Behrens and K. Bokeloh and E. Brown and J. M. R. Cardoso and B. Choi and D. Cline and S. Fattori and A. D. Ferella and K. L. Giboni and A. Kish and C. W. Lam and J. Lamblin and R. F. Lang and K. E. Lim and J. A. M. Lopes and T. Marrodan Undagoitia and Y. Mei and A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez and K. Ni and U. Oberlack and S. E. A. Orrigo and E. Pantic and G. Plante and A. C. C Ribeiro and R. Santorelli and J. M. F. dos Santos and M. Schumann and P. Shagin and A. Teymourian and D. Thers and E. Tziaferi and H. Wang and C. Weinheimer and M. Laubenstein and S. Nisi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5831},
year = {2011}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure