Orateur
Silvia Scorza
Description
Protection from and rejection of backgrounds are key issues for direct dark matter detection and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments.
The potential of next-generation rare event search experiments for achieving very low energy threshold can be challenged by radioactive background at energies below a few tens of keV. Surface contamination from plate-out and implantation of radon daughters can give rise to neutron and gamma-ray backgrounds in the region of interest. Ongoing R&D projects to characterize these backgrounds will be discussed.
Author
Silvia Scorza
