Measurements of extremely low radioactivity levels in stainless steel for GERDA

Budjas, Dusan; Maneschg, Werner; Hampel, Wolfgang; Heusser, Gerd; Laubenstein, M.; Knöpfle, K. T.; Schwingenheuer, B.; Simgen, Hardy

doi:doi:10.1016/j.nima.2008.05.036

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Measurements of extremely low radioactivity levels in stainless steel for GERDA

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Budjas, Dusan
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Maneschg, Werner
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Hampel, Wolfgang
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Heusser, Gerd
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Laubenstein, M.
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Knöpfle, K. T.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Schwingenheuer, B.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Simgen, Hardy
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Budjas, D., Maneschg, W., Hampel, W., Heusser, G., Laubenstein, M., Knöpfle, K. T., et al. (2008). Measurements of extremely low radioactivity levels in stainless steel for GERDA. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 593(3), 448-453. doi:doi:10.1016/j.nima.2008.05.036.

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The radioisotope concentrations in stainless steel for the cryostat of the GERDA experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) have been measured. A total of 13 different stainless steel form batches have been screened by low-level gamma-ray spectrometry with germanium detectors located at two underground laboratories. The article reports the discovery of commonly available stainless steel with very low concentrations of primordial and cosmogenic radionuclides. The concentrations are in the range of 1 mBq/kg and below. Only the manmade 60Co-isotope is present in all samples with a higher concentration of around 19 mBq/kg. Further, deviations from secular equilibrium in the natural decay chains of U and Th have been observed in some cases.