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Radon-222 is a limiting background in many leading dark matter and low energy neutrino experiments. One way to mitigate Radon-222 is to fill external experimental components with a clean cover gas such as N2. At the SNOLAB facility in…

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Muon-induced neutrons can lead to potentially irreducible backgrounds in rare event search experiments. We have investigated the implication of laboratory depth on the muon induced background in a future dark matter experiment capable of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-15 Viktor Pěč , Vitaly A. Kudryavtsev

First test of the 4pi detector for study of exponential law of radioactive decay and possibility of observation of Zeno effect [1-3], measuring the mean life of 216Po is presented. This detector consists of two surface-barrier n-Si(Au)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-09 L. Nadderd , Y. S. Tsyganov , K. Subotic , A. N. Polyakov , Y. V. Lobanov , A. V. Rykhlyuk

Nuclear recoil backgrounds are one of the most dangerous backgrounds for many dark matter experiments. A primary source of nuclear recoils is radiogenic neutrons produced in the detector material itself. These neutrons result from fission…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-15 S. Westerdale , P. D. Meyers

We investigate the electronic background as well as the O2-O3 mode at 330 cm^-1 of highly doped YbBa2Cu3O7-delta in B1g symmetry. Above the critical temperature Tc the spectra consist of an almost constant electronic background and…

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This paper presents a summary of beam-induced backgrounds observed in the ATLAS detector and discusses methods to tag and remove background contaminated events in data. Trigger-rate based monitoring of beam-related backgrounds is presented.…

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We provide a comprehensive study of the cosmic-ray muon flux and induced activity as a function of overburden along with a convenient parameterization of the salient fluxes and differential distributions for a suite of underground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. -M. Mei , A. Hime

Background events in the DRIFT-IId dark matter detector, mimicking potential WIMP signals, are predominantly caused by alpha decays on the central cathode in which the alpha particle is completely or partially absorbed by the cathode…

The goal of the KArlsruhe TRItrium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is the determination of the effective electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c$^2$ at 90% C.L. This goal can only be achieved with a very low background level…

Radon is a significant background source in rare event detection experiments. Activated Carbon (AC) adsorption is widely used for effective radon removal. The selection of AC considers its adsorption capacity and radioactive background. In…

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Neutrinoless double-beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay is the most compelling approach to determine the Majorana nature of neutrino and measure effective Majorana neutrino mass. The LEGEND collaboration is aiming to look for 0$\nu\beta\beta$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-08 M. Ibrahim Mirza

We use Raman spectroscopy to show that exposing few-layer graphene to extreme ultraviolet (EUV, 13.5 nm) radiation, i.e. relatively low photon energy, results in an increasing density of defects. Furthermore, exposure to EUV radiation in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-27 A. Gao , P. J. Rizo , E. Zoethout , L. Scaccabarozzi , C. J. Lee , V. Banine , F. Bijkerk

Neutron-induced background has been studied in various components of the TIN.TIN detector, which is under development for the search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in $\rm^{124}Sn$. Fast neutron flux $\sim10^{6}~n~cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ covering…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-12 N. Dokania , V. Singh , S. Mathimalar , C. Ghosh , V. Nanal , R. G. Pillay , S. Pal , K. G. Bhushan , A. Shrivastava

Radon and its progenies are significant sources of background in rare event detection experiments, including dark matter searches like the PandaX-4T experiment and other rare decay studies such as neutrinoless double beta decay (NLDBD). In…

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Experiments that use liquid noble gasses as target materials, such as argon and xenon, play a significant role in direct detection searches for WIMP(-like) dark matter. As these experiments grow in size, they will soon encounter a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-05 Andrea Gaspert , Pietro Giampa , David E. Morrissey

Temperature sensors fabricated from ultra-low radioactivity materials have been developed for low-background experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay and the interactions of WIMP dark matter. The sensors consist of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-03 A. Dhar , J. C. Loach , P. J. Barton , J. T. Larsen , A. W. P. Poon

This work is a study of some possible background sources in the XENON1T environment which might affect the energy spectrum of electronic recoil events in the lower side and might contribute to the observed excess. We have identified some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Biplob Bhattacherjee , Rhitaja Sengupta

Radiation background studies pertaining to $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{124}$Sn have been carried out. A TiLES setup has been installed at TIFR for this purpose. Neutron-induced background is studied in the TIN.TIN detector materials using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-22 Neha Dokania , V. Singh , C. Ghosh , S. Mathimalar , A. Garai , S. Pal , V. Nanal , R. G. Pillay , A. Shrivastava , K. G. Bhushan