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Description
The ZnWO$_4$ crystal scintillators are promising detectors for low counting experiments thanks to the high level of radio-purity, and reasonably high optical and scintillation properties. Moreover, ZnWO$_4$ is an anisotropic scintillator which can offer a unique possibility to exploit the so-called directionality approach in order to investigate the presence of Dark Matter candidates that induce nuclear recoils. In addition to Dark Matter investigations, the ZnWO$_4$ scintillators can be used in the searches for other rare processes, as double beta processes in zinc ($^{64}$Zn, $^{70}$Zn) and tungsten ($^{180}$W, $^{186}$W) nuclides, and in the investigations of the alpha decay of $^{180}$W. The goal of the ADAMO project is the development of ZnWO$_4$ crystal scintillator with high radiopurity, the optimization of the detector performance and the study of its anisotropic response to nuclear recoils. In this talk, the recent results obtained by the ADAMO project will be reviewed.
Details
Name: Fabio Cappella
Title: Researcher
Institution name: INFN
Country: Italy
Webpage of institution: https://home.infn.it/en/
| Is this abstract from experiment? | Yes |
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| Name of experiment and experimental site | DAMA - http://people.roma2.infn.it/~dama |
| Is the speaker for that presentation defined? | Yes |
| Internet talk | Yes |
