Background identification in cryogenic calorimeters through [Formula omitted] delayed coincidences

Localization and modeling of radioactive contaminations is a challenge that ultra-low background experiments are constantly facing. These are fundamental steps both to extract scientific results and to further reduce the background of the detectors. Here we present an innovative technique based on t...

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Veröffentlicht in:The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Particles and fields, 2021-08, Vol.81 (8)
Hauptverfasser: Azzolini, O, Beeman, J. W, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C
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Zusammenfassung:Localization and modeling of radioactive contaminations is a challenge that ultra-low background experiments are constantly facing. These are fundamental steps both to extract scientific results and to further reduce the background of the detectors. Here we present an innovative technique based on the analysis of [Formula omitted] delayed coincidences in [Formula omitted]Th and [Formula omitted]U decay chains, developed to investigate the contaminations of the ZnSe crystals in the CUPID-0 experiment. This method allows to disentangle surface and bulk contaminations of the detectors relying on the different probability to tag delayed coincidences as function of the [Formula omitted] decay position.
ISSN:1434-6044
1434-6052
DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09476-z