Project of the low background detector BiPo
Description
The low-background detector assigned to search the weak radioactive pollution by the 208 Tl and 214Bi in thin samples with the big area is described. Samples are the 12 m2 foil-sources, made of enriched isotopes, 82 Se or 150Nd. Such samples are planned to use in the investigation of the neutrinoless double beta-decay in the SuperNEMO experiment. The principle of the detector operation is based on the registration of the delayed beta-alpha coincidence from the uranium and thorium radioactive chains. Sensitivity of the detector is planned to be at the level of: 208Tl < 2 μBq/kg and 214Bi < 10 μBq/kg. Alternative variants of the detector are described. The first results obtained by means of the prototype detector, operated in the underground laboratory Frejus, France, are presented
Availability note (English)
Available online: http://www1.jinr.ru/Pepan_letters/panl_3_2009/09_vas.pdfAdditional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Russian)
- Проект низкофонового детектора BiPo
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Pis'ma v Zhurnal 'Fizika Ehlementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra'
- Journal Volume
- 6
- Journal Issue
- 3/152
- Journal Page Range
- p. 391-398
- ISSN
- 1814-5957
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
- Country of Input or Organization
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
- INIS RN
- 41037507
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BACKGROUND RADIATION; BISMUTH 214; CALIBRATION; COINCIDENCE METHODS; ENERGY LOSSES; FOILS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; RADIATIVE DECAY; SCINTILLATION QUENCHING; THALLIUM 208; THICKNESS
- Descriptors DEC
- ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BISMUTH ISOTOPES; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DECAY; DIMENSIONS; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; LOSSES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PARTICLE DECAY; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; THALLIUM ISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Grant RFBR 06-02-16672
- Notes
- 4 refs., 5 figs.
- Collaborations
- On behalf of SuperNEMO Collaboration