The BiPo-3 detector

P. Loaiza (1) , A.S. Barabash , A. Basharina-Freshville , E. Birdsall , S. Blondel (1) , S. Blot , M. Bongrand (1) , D. Boursette (1) , V. Brudanin , J. Busto (2) , A.J. Caffrey , S. Calvez (1) , M. Cascella , C. Cerna (3) , E. Chauveau (3) , A. Chopra , S. de Capua , D. Duchesneau (4) , D. Durand (5) , V. Egorov , G. Eurin (1) , J.J. Evans , L. Fajt , D. Filosofov , R. Flack , X. Garrido (1) , H. Gómez (1) , B. Guillon (5) , P. Guzowski , K. Holý , R. Hodák , A. Huber (3) , C. Hugon (3) , A. Jeremie (4) , S. Jullian (1) , M. Kauer , A. Klimenko , O. Kochetov , S.I. Konovalov , V. Kovalenko , K. Lang , Y. Lemière (5) , T. Le Noblet (4) , Z. Liptak , X.R. Liu , G. Lutter (3) , M. Macko , F. Mamedov , C. Marquet (3) , F. Mauger (5) , B. Morgan , J. Mott , I. Nemchenok , M. Nomachi , F. Nova , H. Ohsumi , G. Oliviéro (5) , R.B. Pahlka , J. Pater , F. Perrot (3) , F. Piquemal (3, 6) , P. Povinec , P. Přidal , Y.A. Ramachers , A. Remoto (4) , B. Richards , C.L. Riddle , E. Rukhadze , R. Saakyan , X. Sarazin (1) , Yu. Shitov , L. Simard (1, 7) , F. Šimkovic , A. Smetana , K. Smolek , A. Smolnikov , S. Söldner-Rembold , B. Soulé (3) , I. Štekl , J. Thomas , V. Timkin , S. Torre , Vl.I. Tretyak , V.I. Tretyak , V.I. Umatov , C. Vilela , V. Vorobel , D. Waters , A. Žukauskas

1 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
2 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
3 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
4 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
5 LPCC - Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen
6 LSM - UMR 6417 - Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane
7 IUF - Institut universitaire de France

The BiPo-3 detector is a low radioactive detector dedicated to measuring ultra-low natural contaminations of 208 Tl and 214 Bi in thin materials, initially developed to measure the radiopurity of the double β decay source foils of the SuperNEMO experiment at the μBq/kg level. The BiPo-3 technique consists in installing the foil of interest between two thin ultra-radiopure scintillators coupled to low radioactive photomultipliers. The design and performances of the detector are presented.

Mots clés: Low-radioactivity measurements; Double beta-decay detectors; background: radioactivity; double-beta decay; Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory; scintillation counter; photomultiplier; bismuth; thallium; admixture; measurement methods

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

P. Loaiza, A.S. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville, E. Birdsall, S. Blondel, et al.. The BiPo-3 detector. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2017, 123, pp.54-59. ⟨10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.01.021⟩. ⟨hal-01554847⟩