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Determination of naturally occurring radionuclides in ultrapure organic liquids
For the determination of trace elements in organic liquids radiochemical neutron activation analysis has been combined with counting methods geared to various decay modes of indicator radionuclides leading to...
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Ultra-sensitive determination of K, Th, U and other trace impurities in liquid organic scintillators by NAA
We present a NAA method to determine ultratraces of K, Th, U and other trace impurities in liquid organic scintillators, which are known as ultrapure detector materials for neutrino or dark matter experiments....
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Neutron activation analysis of ultrapure water in a 500 ml silicon single crystal irradiation flask
Trace element analysis of ultrapure liquids requires the avoidance of contamination not only during preparation but also during irradiation of the sample. Double subboiling distilled water activated within fla...
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Determination of radioactive trace elements in ultra low background detectors by means of neutron activation analysis
In this paper new analytical methods for the determination of naturally occurring radionuclides are being presented. They combine neutron activation radiochemical separation and coincidence counting techniques...
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Effects of Quasiparticle Recombination and Photoelectron Escape in Al-Superconducting Tunnel Junction Detectors
A slight deviation from linearity has been detected for single aluminum superconducting tunnel junction detectors (100×100×0.52=0.35 μm3) in the energy range between E=1.74 keV and E=6.49 keV. The nonlinearity ca...
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The CRESST Dark Matter Search Status and Future
Data taken by CRESST in 2000 with a cryogenic detector system based on 262 g sapphire crystals is used to place limits on WIMP dark matter in the Galactic Halo. The detector is especially sensitive for low-mas...
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Dark matter search with CRESST cryogenic detectors
Results of the CRESST experiment at Gran Sasso using 262-g sapphire calorimeters with tungsten phase transition thermometers are presented. Calibration and analysis methods are described. Data taken in 2000 ha...
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Dark-matter search with CRESST
The CRESST experiment is looking for non-baryonic particle dark matter via nuclear scattering in CaWO4. The simultaneous measurement of the heat and the scintillation light generated by an event in a CaWO4 single...
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Open AccessResults from 730 kg days of the CRESST-II Dark Matter search
The CRESST-II cryogenic Dark Matter search, aiming at detection of WIMPs via elastic scattering off nuclei in CaWO4 crystals, completed 730 kg days of data taking in 2011. We present the data collected with eight...
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Open AccessEnergy-dependent light quenching in CaWO \(_4\) crystals at mK temperatures
Scintillating CaWO \(_4\) ...
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Open AccessResults on low mass WIMPs using an upgraded CRESST-II detector
The CRESST-II cryogenic dark matter search aims for the detection of WIMPs via elastic scattering off nuclei in CaWO \(_4\) ...
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Open AccessA detector module with highly efficient surface-alpha event rejection operated in CRESST-II Phase 2
The cryogenic dark matter experiment CRESST-II aims at the direct detection of WIMPs via elastic scattering off nuclei in scintillating CaWO ...
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Open AccessResults on light dark matter particles with a low-threshold CRESST-II detector
The CRESST-II experiment uses cryogenic detectors to search for nuclear recoil events induced by the elastic scattering of dark matter particles in CaWO ...
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Open AccessQuasiparticle Diffusion in CRESST Light Detectors
CRESST-II is a direct dark matter experiment that uses scintillating calorimeters to detect WIMP-induced nuclear scatter processes. Heat and light signals are read out with tungsten transition edge sensors (TE...
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Open AccessExploring Low-Mass Dark Matter with CRESST
The CRESST-II (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) experiment, whose second phase has been successfully finished in summer 2015, aims at the direct detection of dark matter particles...
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Open AccessThe COSINUS project: perspectives of a NaI scintillating calorimeter for dark matter search
The R&D project COSINUS (Cryogenic Observatory for SIgnatures seen in Next-generation Underground Searches) aims to develop a cryogenic scintillating calorimeter using an undoped NaI-crystal as target for dire...
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Open AccessDark-photon search using data from CRESST-II Phase 2
Identifying the nature and origin of dark matter is one of the major challenges for modern astro and particle physics. Direct dark-matter searches aim at an observation of dark-matter particles interacting wit...
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Open AccessThe \(\nu \) -cleus experiment: a gram-scale fiducial-volume cryogenic detector for the first detection of coherent neutrino–nucleus scattering
We discuss a small-scale experiment, called \(\nu \) ν ...
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Open AccessResults on MeV-scale dark matter from a gram-scale cryogenic calorimeter operated above ground
Models for light dark matter particles with masses below 1 GeV/c \(^2\) ...
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Open AccessA Low Nuclear Recoil Energy Threshold for Dark Matter Search with CRESST-III Detectors
The CRESST-III experiment (Cryogenic Rare Events Search with Superconducting Thermometers), located at the underground facility Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, uses scintillating CaWO ...
