Evaluation of cosmogenic activation of copper and germanium during production in Jinping underground laboratory

Wei-He Zeng; Hao Ma; Ming ZENG; Zhi Zeng; Qian Yue; Jian-Ping Cheng; Jun-Li Li

doi:10.1007/s41365-020-00760-3

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Evaluation of cosmogenic activation of copper and germanium during production in Jinping underground laboratory

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- Evaluation of cosmogenic activation of copper and germanium during production in Jinping underground laboratory
- Nuclear Science and Techniques Vol. 31, Issue 5, Article number: 50(2020)
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  1.Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  2.Key Laboratory of Particle & Radiation Imaging (Tsinghua University), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100084, China
  3.College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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  Corresponding author, zengzhi@tsinghua.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s41365-020-00760-3
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Wei-He Zeng, Hao Ma, Ming ZENG, et al. Evaluation of cosmogenic activation of copper and germanium during production in Jinping underground laboratory. [J]. Nuclear Science and Techniques 31(5):50(2020)
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Wei-He Zeng, Hao Ma, Ming ZENG, et al. Evaluation of cosmogenic activation of copper and germanium during production in Jinping underground laboratory. [J]. Nuclear Science and Techniques 31(5):50(2020) DOI： 10.1007/s41365-020-00760-3.

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Intrinsic radiation of materials is one of the major backgrounds for many rare-event search experiments. Thus, the production of pure materials in an underground laboratory is a promising approach for eliminating cosmogenic radionuclides. In this paper, we demonstrate a procedure to evaluate the yields of cosmogenic radionuclides in copper and germanium in the second phase of the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. Our results show that for copper and germanium materials, the largest cosmogenic background comes from ,3,H and ,57,58,60,Co, and ,3,H and ,68,Ge, respectively, which all have yields on the order of 10,-7, kg,-1, day,-1,. The corresponding radioactivities after 90 days pf exposure underground are estimated to be lower than 10,-6, μBq kg ,-1,.

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Cosmic raysCosmogenic radionuclidesUnderground laboratoryMonte Carlo simulation

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