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Cosmogenic activation: Recent results

Vitaly A. Kudryavtsev
(
- Sheffield U. and
- Unlisted
)

Jan 25, 2018

6 pages

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, 090004

Contribution to:

- LRT 2017

Published: Jan 25, 2018

DOI:

10.1063/1.5022583

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Abstract: (AIP)

Activation of materials is known to cause background events in underground experiments that may affect the sensitivity of these experiments to rare event searches. The most common source of activation is the exposure of materials to cosmic rays at the surface of the Earth but other various sources of neutrons may also be dangerous. Different computer codes provide estimates of production rates of radioactive isotopes due to activation but their results are sometimes inconsistent. High-sensitivity experiments looking for dark matter, neutrino-less double-beta decay or neutrinos from various sources, although affected by activation, provide crucial tests of models used in the codes. Recent calculations and measurements of activation rates are discussed in this paper.

double-beta decay
cosmic radiation
radioactivity
dark matter
sensitivity
background
computer
surface

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