Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT2022)

Topics

• Underground laboratories

• Low-background methods and counting techniques

• Cosmogenic background: experimental data and simulations

• Mitigation of radon background

• Mitigation of surface contamination background

• Crystal scintillators, radio-purity, crystal growth, and application to rare-event searches

• Liquid scintillator and water Cherenkov: radio-purity, purification methods

• Radio-purity assay and databases

• Detectors with liquid noble gases for rare-event searches

• Bolometers for rare-event searches

• Semiconductor detector backgrounds, production

• Low-background material production (including advanced machining and 3D printing)

• Particle background impacts on quantum information systems and quantum computing