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Title: Final Report for DUSEL R&D: BetaCage: A Screener of Ultra-Low-Level Radioactive Surface Contamination

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1111582· OSTI ID:1111582
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  1. California Institute of Technology

The eventual full-size, radiopure BetaCage will be a low-background, atmospheric-pressure neon drift chamber with unprecedented sensitivity to emitters of low-energy electrons and alpha particles. We expect that the prototype BetaCage already developed will be an excellent screener of alpha particles. Both the prototype and final BetaCage will provide new infrastructure for rare-event science.

Research Organization:
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-07ER41481
OSTI ID:
1111582
Report Number(s):
DOE-CALTECH-41481-4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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