Speaker
Prof.
Richard Schnee
(South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)
Description
The BetaCage is a proposed neon time-projection chamber for the ultra-sensitive (and nondestructive) screening of material surfaces for alpha- and beta-emitting contaminants, such as those due to implantation of radon progeny. The expected sensitivity is 0.1 betas per keV-m^2-day and 0.1 alphas per m^2-day. I will describe the detector design, results from background simulations, and results from a prototype.
Primary author
Prof.
Richard Schnee
(South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)
Co-authors
Mr
Alex Rider
(Caltech)
Mr
Alex Zahn
(Caltech)
Dr
Boqian Wang
(Syracuse University)
Prof.
Darren Grant
(University of Alberta)
Dr
Raymond Bunker
(South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)
Dr
Robert Nelson
(Caltech)
Prof.
Sunil Golwala
(Caltech)
Dr
Zeesh Ahmed
(Caltech)
