Speaker
GLORIA LUZÓN MARCO
Description
The techniques applied to study and reduce backgrounds in the context of experiments searching for the direct detection of WIMPs like ANAIS and TREX-DM, at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC), and for solar axions like BabyIAXO, at DESY, will be briefly presented. They include extensive material screening campaigns based on gamma spectroscopy with HPGe detectors at LSC, the development of the AlphaCAMM detector intended to measure surface radioactive contamination with high sensitivity, the quantification of instrinsic activity of NaI(Tl) detectors and measurements of environmental backgrunds like neutrons.