Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT2024)

Topics

• Underground laboratories
• Low-background methods and counting techniques
• Cosmogenic background: experimental data and simulations
• Mitigation of radon background
• Mitigation of neutron background
• Mitigation of surface contamination background
• Crystal scintillators, radio-purity, crystal growth, and application to rare-event searches
• Liquid scintillator and water Cherenkov: radio-purity, purification methods
• Radio-purity assay and databases
• Detectors with liquid noble gases for rare-event searches
• Bolometers for rare-event searches
• Semiconductor detector backgrounds, production
• Low-background material production (including advanced machining and 3D printing)
• Particle background impacts on quantum information systems and quantum computing