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Experience of gas purification and radon control in BOREXINO

G. Zuzel

Jan 3, 2018

Part of Proceedings, 6th Topical Workshop on Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT 2017) : Seoul, Korea, May 24-26, 2017

Published in:

AIP Conf.Proc. 1921 (2018) 1, 050001

Contribution to:

- LRT 2017

Published: Jan 3, 2018

DOI:

10.1063/1.5018994

Experiments:

BOREXINO

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The BOREXINO detector, located in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, has been designed for real-time spectroscopy of low energy solar neutrinos. Extremely low background rates required to successfully accomplish this goal triggered a very extensive R&D program focused on developments of novel background reduction and assay techniques. This has been achieved and, in many cases, these techniques are still the most sensitive world-wide. Extremely low background of the BOREXINO detector made it possible to probe almost entire spectrum of the solar neutrinos in real-time. Radon, as one of the main background sources, needed special considerations and developments, described briefly in this paper.

07.75.+h
26.65.+t
Solar neutrinos
radioactive impurities
ultra-low background techniques
activity report
background: low
neutrino: solar
Borexino
radon: background

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