Natural radionuclides as background sources in the Modane underground laboratory
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A90107%2F20%3A00344120" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:90107/20:00344120 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106185" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106185</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106185" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106185</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Natural radionuclides as background sources in the Modane underground laboratory
Original language description
The Modane underground laboratory (LSM) is the deepest operating underground laboratory in Europe. It is located under the Frejus peak in Savoie Alps in France, with average overburden of 4800 m w. e. (water equivalent), providing low-background environment for experiments in nuclear and particle physics, astrophysics and environmental physics. It is crucial to understand individual sources of background such as residual cosmic-ray flux of high-energy muons, muon-induced neutrons and contributions from radionuclides present in the environment. The identified dominant sources of background are radioactive contamination of construction materials of detectors and laboratory walls, radon contamination of the laboratory air, and neutrons produced in the laboratory. The largest neutron contribution has been identified from (alpha, n) reactions in low Z materials (10(-)(7)-10(-)(4) n s(-1) Bq(-1)) and from spontaneous fission of U-238 (10(-)(6) n s(-1) Bq(-1)).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10304 - Nuclear physics
Result continuities
Project
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Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
ISSN
0265-931X
e-ISSN
1879-1700
Volume of the periodical
216
Issue of the periodical within the volume
106185
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
1-8
UT code for WoS article
000528571400010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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