11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Characterization of the cosmogenic background in NaI(Tl)

15 Dec 2022, 17:30
1h 30m
Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Exhibition Halls F & G

Adelaide Convention Centre

Poster AIP: Nuclear and Particle Physics Poster session

Speaker

Yi Yi Zhong (ANU)

Description

A NaI(Tl) crystal was irradiated by a strong cosmic ray-like neutron beam to characterize the cosmogenic background in NaI(Tl).This study will inform the development and analysis of NaI(Tl)-based experiments and also improve their sensitivity to probe dark matter.

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