@article{fc93371a1f9742b8be1bc71f49bd5b5c,
title = "Material radioassay and selection for the XENON1T dark matter experiment",
abstract = "The XENON1T dark matter experiment aims to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) through low-energy interactions with xenon atoms. To detect such a rare event necessitates the use of radiopure materials to minimize the number of background events within the expected WIMP signal region. In this paper we report the results of an extensive material radioassay campaign for the XENON1T experiment. Using gamma-ray spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques, systematic measurements of trace radioactive impurities in over one hundred samples within a wide range of materials were performed. The measured activities allowed for stringent selection and placement of materials during the detector construction phase and provided the input for XENON1T detection sensitivity estimates through Monte Carlo simulations.",
author = "{XENON Collaboration} and E. Aprile and J. Aalbers and F. Agostini and M. Alfonsi and Amaro, {F. D.} and M. Anthony and F. Arneodo and P. Barrow and L. Baudis and B. Bauermeister and Benabderrahmane, {M. L.} and T. Berger and Breur, {P. A.} and A. Brown and E. Brown and S. Bruenner and G. Bruno and R. Budnik and L. B{\"u}tikofer and J. Calv{\'e}n and Cardoso, {J. M.R.} and M. Cervantes and D. Cichon and D. Coderre and Colijn, {A. P.} and J. Conrad and Cussonneau, {J. P.} and Decowski, {M. P.} and {de Perio}, P. and {Di Gangi}, P. and {Di Giovanni}, A. and S. Diglio and G. Eurin and J. Fei and Ferella, {A. D.} and A. Fieguth and D. Franco and W. Fulgione and {Gallo Rosso}, A. and M. Galloway and F. Gao and M. Garbini and C. Geis and Goetzke, {L. W.} and L. Grandi and Z. Greene and C. Grignon and C. Hasterok and E. Hogenbirk and R. Itay",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Max Planck Gesellschaft, German Ministry for Education and Research, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Weizmann Institute of Science, I-CORE, Initial Training Network Invisibles (Marie Curie Actions, PITNGA-2011-289442), Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Region des Pays de la Loire, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Kavli Foundation, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. We are grateful to Labora-tori Nazionali del Gran Sasso for hosting and supporting the XENON project. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, The Author(s).",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5329-0",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "77",
journal = "European Physical Journal C",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "12",
}