Open AccessFull Background Characterization of Felsenkeller Underground Laboratory
Author(s) -
Michael Grieger
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012246
Subject(s) - pelletron , nuclear physics , monte carlo method , physics , neutron , national laboratory , characterization (materials science) , nuclear engineering , beam (structure) , engineering , engineering physics , optics , statistics , mathematics
Felsenkeller underground laboratory is a new 140 m.w.e. deep shallow-underground laboratory housing a 5 MV Pelletron ion accelerator for studies of nuclear astrophysics in Dresden, Germany. The no-beam background has been extensively studied for muons, neutrons and γ-rays and obtained data were matched by Monte-Carlo simulations for muons and neutrons with excellent agreement.