https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2007-10577-0
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Control of bulk and surface radioactivity in bolometric searches for double-beta decay
1
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
2
INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
3
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy
4
Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy
5
Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse, Orsay, France
* e-mail: pavan@mib.infn.it
Received:
13
December
2007
Accepted:
14
April
2008
Published online:
13
May
2008
The problem of background reduction in bolometers used to search for ββ(0ν) is reviewed with particular emphasis on bulk and surface radioactive contamination of the detectors.
PACS: 29.40.-n Radiation detectors – / 23.40.-s β decay; double β decay; electron and muon capture –
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2008
