1. Initial performance of the high sensitivity alpha particle detector at the Yangyang underground laboratory
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Y. D. Kim, David Leonard, Woon Gu Kang, C. Ha, P. Adhikari, B.H. Kim, J.S. Park, J.H. Lee, Hyo-Suk Lee, Y. S. Yoon, Yong Hamb Kim, Eunju Jeon, H. J. Kim, Govinda Adhikari, Stephen L. Olsen, Moo Hyun Lee, and S.H. Yong
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Argon ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Detector ,FOS: Physical sciences ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,Alpha particle ,Sample (graphics) ,Computational physics ,chemistry ,Ionization chamber ,Calibration ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Sensitivity (control systems) ,Instrumentation ,Helium - Abstract
Initial performance of the UltraLo-1800 alpha particle detector at the 700 m deep Yangyang underground laboratory in Korea is described. The ionization detector uses Argon as a counting gas for measuring alpha events of a sample. We present initial calibration results and low-activity sample measurements based on the detector's pulse discrimination method and a hardware veto. A likelihood analysis that shows a separation of a bulk component from a surface component with a contamination depth from $^{210}$Po alpha particles using simulated models is presented., Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures, nima accepted
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- 2019
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