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'Naked' Crystals go Underground

2003/07/26 by Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

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published as CERN Cour. 43N6 (2003) 9 · 4 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2003/07/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

On May 5, 2003 in the GRAN SASSO Underground Laboratory the first naked high-purity Germanium detectors were installed successfully in liquid nitrogen in the GENIUS-Test-Facility (GENIUS-TF). This is the first time ever that this novel technique for extreme background reduction in searches for rare decays is going to be tested under realistic background conditions.

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