Speaker
Richard Saldanha
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Description
Long-lived radioactive isotopes produced by cosmogenic activation can be a major source of background for rare event searches such as dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay. In this talk I will present recent efforts to measure and mitigate cosmogenic tritium production in silicon devices including measurements of the production rate, efforts to reduce exposure through shielding, and novel techniques to remove cosmogenic tritium from silicon substrates.
Primary author
Richard Saldanha
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
