May 23 – 27, 2017
Seoul
Asia/Seoul timezone

The Radiopurity.org Material Database

May 24, 2017, 4:30 PM
20m
Seoul

Seoul

Oral Session 3

Speaker

Alan Poon (Berkeley Lab)

Description

Rare-event searches — such as dark matter and neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments — at deep underground laboratories have stringent radiopurity requirements for their construction materials. Researchers have to determine the radiopurity specifications for all physical elements of the experiment, then source, assay, and acquire these components. Over the last several decades, researchers in the low-background physics community have accumulated thousands of radioassay results for these materials. An community-wide effort to provide a flexible platform for storing and disseminating these results have been realized at http://www.radiopurity.org. In this talk, I will describe the current status of this platform.

Primary author

Alan Poon (Berkeley Lab)

Co-authors

James Loach (SJTU) Jodi Cooley (SMU)

Presentation materials