2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Session

W1-9 Advanced Instrumentation at Major Science Facilities: Detectors II (DIMP) / Instrumentation avancée dans des installations scientifiques majeures: détecteurs II (DPIM)

W1-9

17 Jun 2015, 08:45

University of Alberta

Conveners

W1-9 Advanced Instrumentation at Major Science Facilities: Detectors II (DIMP) / Instrumentation avancée dans des installations scientifiques majeures: détecteurs II (DPIM)

• Kirk Michaelian (Natural Resources Canada)

793. Advanced Instrumentation Techniques developed for SNOLAB science programmes.

Nigel Smith (SNOLab)

17/06/2015, 08:45

Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité

SNOLAB is a deep underground research facility, based at a depth of 2km in the Vale Creighton mine, near Sudbury, Ontario. The SNOLAB research programme is primarily based around particle and astroparticle physics projects studying the Galactic dark matter, neutrinoless double beta decay and natural sources of neutrinos. Several leading edge technologies have been developed to study these...

567. Ultra-Low Background Counting and Assay Studies At SNOLAB

Dr Ian Lawson (SNOLAB)

17/06/2015, 09:15

Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)

Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)

Experiments currently searching for dark matter, studying properties of neutrinos or searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay require very low levels of radioactive backgrounds both in their own construction materials and in the surrounding environment. These low background levels are required so that the experiments can achieve the required sensitivities for their searches. SNOLAB has...

588. Maintaining Clean Rooms at the SNOLAB Underground Laboratory

Chris Jillings (SNOLAB)

17/06/2015, 09:30

Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)

Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)

The SNOLAB underground laboratory has 50 thousand square feet of floor space all kept as a class 2000 clean room. This suppresses backgrounds from Uranium and Thorium which comprise approximately 1ppm of mine dust and a few ppm of concrete. The systems used to maintain and monitor the cleanliness will be discussed as well as results from cleanliness audits. Air in mines typically has much...