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Techniques in Fabrication of Flexible Circuits
| Abstract: |
EXO-200 is an ultra-low background double beta decay experiment. It’s main physics goal is the
search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe. The EXO-200 inner detector assembly is
currently ongoing on the Stanford campus, and will be installed and run underground at the WIPP
salt mine in New Mexico next year. One of it’s toughest challenges is to reach low enough
radioactive background in its constituents to allow for the observation of such extremely rare
events with good sensitivity. This talk focuses on the technical aspects of the custom-made flat
cables, designed and produced with the strictest radioactivity budget possible. I will illustrate the
design arguments for such cables, the material selection process and qualification, the production
campaign and technology, and show pictures of the assembly and installation process. |
| Speaker: |
Andrea Pocar - Stanford University |
| Speaker Bio: |
 Andrea Pocar is a postdoc at Stanford working on the EXO double beta decay experiment. He
graduated from the University of Milan working on silicon pixel detectors for ATLAS. After a brief
period spent at UC Santa Cruz developing silicon strips for GLAST, he settled on neutrino physics.
He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton working on the Borexino solar neutrino experiment at Gran
Sasso. He has a specific expertise is building large, ultra-low background neutrino detectors,
which he refined during his Stanford tenure. He will move to the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, as an assistant professor, in January |
| Poster Link: |
Poster |
| Presentation: |
Presentation on 12/10/2008 (PDF)
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