Published February 11, 2007 | Version v1
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Development of low-background CsI(Tl) crystals for WIMP search

Creators

  • 1. DMRC and School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Science Education, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 3. Physics Department, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 4. Physics Department, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 5. Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 6. Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039 (China)
  • 7. Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)

Description

Search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) is being carried out at the underground laboratory, Yangyang, Korea. Characteristics and internal background of CsI(Tl) crystal have been investigated. In our extensive R and D, we reduced internal background in the CsI(Tl) crystal. With the latest, we have achieved 5.50+/-0.10cpd (counts/keV/kg/day) at 10-15keV low-energy region. Further reduction of internal background is foreseen with the CsI powder lately produced

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.325;
PII
S0168-9002(06)02265-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
571
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 644-650
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38104418
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
CRYSTALS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; UNDERGROUND
Descriptors DEC
ISOTOPES; LEVELS; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.