The KDK (potassium decay) experiment
Nuclear Experiment
2017-11-15 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
Potassium-40 (K) is a background in many rare-event searches and may well play a role in interpreting results from the DAMA dark-matter search. The electron-capture decay of K to the ground state of Ar has never been measured and contributes an unknown amount of background. The KDK (potassium decay) collaboration will measure this branching ratio using a K source, an X-ray detector, and the Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.04004,
title = {The KDK (potassium decay) experiment},
author = {P. C. F. Di Stefano and N. Brewer and A. Fijałkowska and Z. Gai and K. C. Goetz and R. Grzywacz and D. Hamm and P. Lechner and Y. Liu and E. Lukosi and M. Mancuso and C. Melcher and J. Ninkovic and F. Petricca and B. C. Rasco and C. Rouleau and K. P. Rykaczewski and P. Squillari and L. Stand and D. Stracener and M. Stukel and M. Wolińska-Cichocka and I. Yavin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04004},
year = {2017}
}
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TAUP 2017 - XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics