The Soreq applied research accelerator facility (SARAF): overview, research programs and future plans

I Mardor, O Aviv, M Avrigeanu, D Berkovits… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF) is under construction in the Soreq
Nuclear Research Center at Yavne, Israel. When completed at the beginning of the next …

Neutron-induced background in the CONUS experiment

J Hakenmüller, C Buck, K Fülber, G Heusser… - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
CONUS is a novel experiment aiming at detecting elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering in the
almost fully coherent regime using high-purity germanium (Ge) detectors and a reactor as …

Cosmogenic activation in double beta decay experiments

S Cebrián - Universe, 2020 - mdpi.com
Double beta decay is a very rare nuclear process and, therefore, experiments intended to
detect it must be operated deep underground and in ultra-low background conditions. Long …

Cosmogenic activation of materials

S Cebrián - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2017 - World Scientific
Experiments looking for rare events like the direct detection of dark matter particles, neutrino
interactions or the nuclear double beta decay are operated deep underground to suppress …

Compilation of isomeric ratios of light particle induced nuclear reactions

A Rodrigo, N Otuka, S Takács, AJ Koning - Atomic Data and Nuclear Data …, 2023 - Elsevier
Experimental isomeric ratios of light (A≤ 4) particle-induced nuclear reactions were
compiled for the product nuclides having metastable states with half-lives longer than 0.1 s …

Virtual depth by active background suppression: revisiting the cosmic muon induced background of Gerda Phase II

C Wiesinger, L Pandola, S Schönert - The European Physical Journal C, 2018 - Springer
In-situ production of radioisotopes by cosmic muon interactions may generate a non-
negligible background for deep underground rare event searches. Previous Monte Carlo …

Measurement of the cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN

A Gawlik-Ramięga, C Lederer-Woods, M Krtička… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
The Ge 76 (n, γ) reaction has been measured at the n_TOF facility at CERN via the time-of-
flight technique. Neutron capture cross sections on Ge 76 are of interest to a variety of low …

Signatures of muonic activation in the Majorana Demonstrator

IJ Arnquist, FT Avignone III, AS Barabash, CJ Barton… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Experiments searching for very rare processes such as neutrinoless double-beta decay
require a detailed understanding of all sources of background. Signals from radioactive …

Cross sections and gamma cascades in Ge needed for background reduction in experiments on Ge

P Grabmayr - The European Physical Journal A, 2024 - Springer
The compound nucleus model is employed to calculate neutron capture on\(^{76}\) Ge and
the consecutive\(\gamma\) decay. Total, inelastic and capture cross sections are compared …

Examining LEGEND-1000 cosmogenic neutron backgrounds in Geant4 and MCNP

CJ Barton, W Xu, R Massarczyk… - Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
For next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, extremely low
backgrounds are necessary. An understanding of in-situ cosmogenic backgrounds is critical …