Conveners
History Talks
- Carlos Peña Garay (Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc)
We start with the early applications of Ge detectors for fundamental physics by the group of Ettore Fiorini’s search for double-beta decay of Ge-76. This was followed by the early work of the Battelle-Carolina Collaboration, IGEX, then MAJORANA. Werecognize parallel efforts by the Heidelberg group, andspecial background reduction by GERDA and LEGEND using their liquid Ar emersion technique....
The BOREXINO solar neutrino experiment was a pioneer in the suppression of radioactive background. The first real-time detection of sub-MeV solar neutrinos became possible only by a strict radiopurity control program.
That started with a smart detector design, in which the mass of the scintillator-containing vessel was ultimately minimized. It continued with the selection of radiopure...
