GeMSE: A new low-background facility for meteorite and material screening

von Sivers, Moritz; Hofmann, B. A.; Rosén, Å. V.; Schumann, Marc (2015). GeMSE: A new low-background facility for meteorite and material screening. AIP conference proceedings, 1672(120004), p. 120004. American Institute of Physics 10.1063/1.4928010

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We are currently setting up a facility for low-background gamma-ray spectrometry based on a HPGe detector. It is dedicated to material screening for the XENON and DARWIN dark matter projects as well as to the characterization of meteorites. The detector will be installed in a medium depth (∼620 m.w.e.) underground laboratory in Switzerland with several layers of shielding and an active muon-veto. The GeMSE facility will be operational by fall 2015 with an expected background rate of ∼250 counts/day (100-2700 keV).

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

von Sivers, Moritz, Schumann, Marc

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

0094-243X

Publisher:

American Institute of Physics

Language:

English

Submitter:

Marc Schumann

Date Deposited:

26 Apr 2016 10:41

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:55

Publisher DOI:

10.1063/1.4928010

ArXiv ID:

1505.07015

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.81219

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/81219

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