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Low Radioactivity Techniques 2015

18–20 Mar 2015
US/Pacific timezone

Session

Session 11

20 Mar 2015, 15:40

Conveners

Session 11: Background Modeling and Measurements (continued)

  • Carla Maria Cattadori (INFN)

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  1. 46. Low-background techniques applied in the Borexino experiment
    Grzegorz Zuzel (Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
    20/03/2015, 15:40
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    Borexino, located at the Gran Sasso Laboratory, is a liquid scintillator detector with active mass of 278 tons. The main goal of the experiment is the real-time registration of sub-MeV solar neutrinos through their elastic scattering on the electrons. The lack of directionality of the light emitted by the scintillator makes it impossible to distinguish neutrino-scattered electrons from...
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  2. 62. Background reduction in the SNO+ Experiment
    Dr Laura Segui (University of Oxford)
    20/03/2015, 16:00
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    SNO+ is a large multi-purpose liquid scintillator experiment, which first aim is to detect the neutrinoless double beta decay of Te-130. It is placed at SNOLAB, at 6000 m.w.e. and it is based on the SNO infrastructure. SNO+ will contain approximately 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator, loaded with Te-130 inside an acrylic vessel (AV) with an external volume of ultra pure water to reduce the...
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  3. 3. Results and perspectives of the GERDA experiment
    Dr Bela Majorovits (MPI für Physik)
    20/03/2015, 16:20
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    The GERDA experiment for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay has finished its first phase of data taking in 2013. A very low background level of ~0.01 Counts/(kg yr keV) corresponding to ~40 Counts/(t yr RoI) has been achieved around Q_bb. Competitive limits on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge have been given. The experiment will be described. Special emphasis will be given...
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  4. 6. Low background techniques in CANDLES
    Dr Kyohei Nakajima (Osaka University)
    20/03/2015, 16:40
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    CANDLES is a double beta decay experiment using 48Ca in CaF2 crystals. Thanks to the highest Q value among all isotope candidates (4.27 MeV), we can measure signals in small background contribution. A remarkable distinction in the measurement is the active veto by liquid scintillator. Because the time constant is largely different in pulse shape between CaF2 and liquid scintillator, large...
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  5. 95. Closing Remarks
    20/03/2015, 17:00
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