Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-07-05
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A595:431-438,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
to be published in Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nima.2008.07.071
New generation dark matter experiments aim at exploring the 10e-9 - 10e-10 pb cross-section region for the WIMP-nucleon scalar interactions. Neutrons produced in the detector components are one of the main factors that can limit detector sensitivity. Estimation of the background from this source then becomes a crucial task for designing future large-scale detectors. Energy spectra and production rates for neutrons coming from radioactive contamination are required for all materials in and around the detector. In order to estimate neutron yields and spectra, the cross-sections of (a,n) reactions and probabilities of transitions to different excited states should be known. Cross-sections and transition probabilities have been calculated using Empire2.19 for several isotopes, and for some isotopes, a comparison with the experimental data is shown. The results have been used to calculate the neutron spectra from materials using the code Sources4A. Neutron background event rates from some detector components in a hypothetical dark matter detector based on Ge crystals have been estimated. Some requirements for the radiopurity of the materials have been deduced from the results of these simulations.
Kudryavtsev Vitaly A.
Robinson Michael
Tomasello Vito
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