Background studies and shielding effects for the TPC detector of the CAST experiment

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2007-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/0706.1636v1

New J.Phys.9:208,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 5 figures, accepted in New Journal of Physics

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/9/7/208

Sunset solar axions traversing the intense magnetic field of the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment may be detected in a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detector, as X-rays signals. These signals could be masked, however, by the inhomogeneous background of materials in the experimental site. A detailed analysis, based on the detector characteristics, the background radiation at the CAST site, simulations and experimental results, has allowed us to design a shielding which reduces the background level by a factor of ~4 compared to the detector without shielding, depending on its position, in the energy range between 1 and 10 keV. Moreover, this shielding has improved the homogeneity of background measured by the TPC.

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