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Underground measurements of radioactivity
Matthias Laubenstein,Mikael Hult,Joël Gasparro,Dirk Arnold,S. Neumaier,G. Heusser,Matthias Köhler,Pavel P. Povinec,Jean-Louis Reyss,M. Schwaiger,Pall Theodorsson +10 more
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The state of the art in underground gamma-ray spectrometry is described and needs of deep underground facilities for higher sensitivity measurements are discussed.About:
This article is published in Applied Radiation and Isotopes.The article was published on 2004-08-01. It has received 176 citations till now.read more
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Solar fusion cross sections II: the pp chain and CNO cycles
Eric Adelberger,Alejandro Garcia,R. G. Hamish Robertson,K. A. Snover,A. B. Balantekin,K. M. Heeger,Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf,Daniel Bemmerer,Arnd R. Junghans,Carlos A. Bertulani,Jiunn-Wei Chen,H. Costantini,Paolo Prati,Manoel Couder,Ethan Uberseder,Michael Wiescher,Richard H. Cyburt,Barry Davids,Stuart Freedman,Moshe Gai,D. Gazit,L. Gialanella,Gianluca Imbriani,Uwe Greife,Michael Hass,Wick Haxton,Takahisa Itahashi,Kuniharu Kubodera,K. Langanke,Daniela Leitner,Matthaeus Leitner,Paul Vetter,L. Winslow,Laura Elisa Marcucci,T. Motobayashi,A. M. Mukhamedzhanov,R. E. Tribble,Kenneth M. Nollett,Filomena Nunes,T.-S. Park,P. D. Parker,Rocco Schiavilla,Edward Simpson,Claudio Spitaleri,Frank Strieder,H. P. Trautvetter,K. Suemmerer,Stefan Typel +47 more
TL;DR: The available data on nuclear fusion cross sections important to energy generation in the Sun and other hydrogen-burning stars and to solar neutrino production are summarized and critically evaluated in this article.
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First results from the NEWS-G direct dark matter search experiment at the LSM
Q. Arnaud,D. M. Asner,J.-P. Bard,A. Brossard,A. Brossard,Bei Cai,M. Chapellier,M. Clark,E. C. Corcoran,T. Dandl,A. Dastgheibi-Fard,K. Dering,P. Di Stefano,D. Durnford,G. Gerbier,Ioannis Giomataris,P. Gorel,M. Gros,O. Guillaudin,Eric W. Hoppe,A. Kamaha,I. Katsioulas,David G. Kelly,R. D. Martin,J. M. McDonald,Jean-François Muraz,J.-P. Mols,X. F. Navick,T. Papaevangelou,F. Piquemal,S. Roth,D. Santos,I. Savvidis,A. Ulrich,F. Vazquez de Sola Fernandez,M. Zampaolo +35 more
TL;DR: In this article, the results from the first physics run taken at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM) with SEDINE, a 60 cm diameter prototype SPC operated with a mixture of Ne + CH 4 (0.7%) at 3.1 bars for a total exposure of 9.6
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The projected background for the CUORE experiment
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TL;DR: In this article, a Monte Carlo simulation was developed to evaluate the expected background rate in the energy region where the peak signature of neutrinoless double beta decay of Te is expected.
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LUNA: Nuclear Astrophysics Deep Underground
TL;DR: In this article, the main features of underground nuclear astrophysics are summarized and discussed, and future directions towards the study both of helium and carbon burning and of stellar neutron sources in stars are outlined.
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Low-level germanium gamma-ray spectrometry at the μBq/kg level and future developments towards higher sensitivity
TL;DR: GeMPI, a germanium gamma-spectrometer operated at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory, was described in this paper, where the complete cryostat system and shield was made from highly selected low activity materials.
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