Low background facilities situated in Underground laboratories are unique instruments to look beyond the existing ideas about the structure of the universe. This branch of the modern experimental physics is often called as “Underground Physics”. Search for neutrinoless double beta decay process and for a favored Dark Matter candidate - weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), monitoring of neutrinos from the Sun etc are required detectors made of enriched (depleted) stable isotopes. Calibration of the solar detector and search for the 4th generation of (sterile) neutrinos are also demanded artificial (anti)neutrino sources of high intensity. Several underground experiments will be reviewed as examples (KamLAND-Zen, GERDA, AMoRE, SAGE, CeSOX etc).
The report is devoted to the production of stable and radioactive isotopes and their application for experiments in Underground Physics. The main techniques for separation of stable isotopes and production of radioactive isotopes with nuclear reactors will be shortly described.
Host: Prof. Wooyoung Kim