CUORE crystal validation runs: Results on radioactive contamination and extrapolation to CUORE background

Authors
Publication date 07-2012
Journal Astroparticle Physics
Volume | Issue number 35 | 12
Pages (from-to) 839-849
Number of pages 11
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract

The CUORE Crystal Validation Runs (CCVRs) have been carried out since the end of 2008 at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories, in order to test the performance and the radiopurity of the TeO 2 crystals produced at SICCAS (Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for the CUORE experiment. In this work the results of the first 5 validation runs are presented. Results have been obtained for bulk contaminations and surface contaminations from several nuclides. An extrapolation to the CUORE background has been performed.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.02.008
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