Speaker
Sagar Sharma Poudel
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Description
Background Explorer is a toolkit for modeling backgrounds in sensitive detectors from radioactive sources. Originally developed for the SuperCDMS dark matter search, it is now open-source and freely available at https://github.com/bloer/bgexplorer. The components that make up the detector and shielding system, associated material assays of radioactive contamination levels, and radiation transport simulation outputs are all collected in a MongoDB database. Background Explorer provides a web interface to easily enter and edit all of these quantities, and interactively drill-down into how different sources contribute to the overall background budget, generating tables, charts, and spectra on demand.
Primary authors
B. Loer
(PNNL)
Sagar Sharma Poudel
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
