85Kr and 39Ar background in GENIUS
Abstract
GENIUS is a proposal for a large-scale detector of rare events like double beta decay, cold dark matter and low-energy solar neutrinos in real time. The idea of GENIUS is to operate a large amount of "naked" Ge detectors in liquid nitrogen, with the aim of reducing the background down to a level of 10 -3 counts/kg keV yr . In this work, we investigate the contribution to the background of GENIUS coming from argon ( 39Ar) and krypton ( 85Kr) contamination in the liquid nitrogen.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- August 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01509-2
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0306258
- Bibcode:
- 2003NIMPA.508..337K
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- In press, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment (2003)
