XENON1T暗物质实验的材料放射性分析与筛选
仪器与探测器
2018-01-24 v1
摘要
XENON1T暗物质实验旨在通过氙原子低能相互作用探测弱相互作用大质量粒子(WIMPs)。探测如此稀有事件需要使用放射纯材料，以最小化预期WIMP信号区域内的本底事件数。本文中我们报告了XENON1T实验广泛材料放射性分析活动的结果。利用伽马能谱法和质谱技术，对广泛材料中一百余个样品的痕量放射性杂质进行了系统测量。测得的活度使得在探测器建造阶段能够对材料进行严格筛选与布置，并通过蒙特卡洛模拟为XENON1T探测灵敏度估计提供了输入。
引用
@article{arxiv.1705.01828,
title = {Material radioassay and selection for the XENON1T dark matter experiment},
author = {XENON Collaboration and E. Aprile and J. Aalbers and F. Agostini and M. Alfonsi and F. D. Amaro and M. Anthony and F. Arneodo and P. Barrow and L. Baudis and B. Bauermeister and M. L. Benabderrahmane and T. Berger and P. A. Breur and A. Brown and E. Brown and S. Bruenner and G. Bruno and R. Budnik and L. Bütikofer and J. Calven and J. M. R. Cardoso and M. Cervantes and D. Cichon and D. Coderre and A. P. Colijn and J. Conrad and J. P. Cussonneau and M. P. Decowski and P. de Perio and P. Di Gangi and A. Di Giovanni and S. Diglio and G. Eurin and J. Fei and A. D. Ferella and A. Fieguth and D. Franco and W. Fulgione and A. Gallo Rosso and M. Galloway and F. Gao and M. Garbini and C. Geis and L. W. Goetzke and L. Grandi and Z. Greene and C. Grignon and C. Hasterok and E. Hogenbirk and R. Itay and B. Kaminsky and G. Kessler and A. Kish and H. Landsman and R. F. Lang and D. Lellouch and L. Levinson and M. Le Calloch and Q. Lin and S. Lindemann and M. Lindner and J. A. M. Lopes and A. Manfredini and I. Maris and T. Marrodán Undagoitia and J. Masbou and F. V. Massoli and D. Masson and D. Mayani and M. Messina and K. Micheneau and B. Miguez and A. Molinario and M. Murra and J. Naganoma and K. Ni and U. Oberlack and P. Pakarha and B. Pelssers and R. Persiani and F. Piastra and J. Pienaar and M. -C. Piro and V. Pizzella and G. Plante and N. Priel and L. Rauch and S. Reichard and C. Reuter and A. Rizzo and S. Rosendahl and N. Rupp and R. Saldanha and J. M. F. dos Santos and G. Sartorelli and M. Scheibelhut and S. Schindler and J. Schreiner and M. Schumann and L. Scotto Lavina and M. Selvi and P. Shagin and E. Shockley and M. Silva and H. Simgen and M. v. Sivers and A. Stein and D. Thers and A. Tiseni and G. Trinchero and C. D. Tunnell and N. Upole and H. Wang and Y. Wei and C. Weinheimer and J. Wulf and J. Ye and Y. Zhang and M. Laubenstein and S. Nisi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01828},
year = {2018}
}