Sentences with phrase «other background radioactivity»
Some flashes occur as a result of collisions by stray neutrons and other background radioactivity.
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In a study published March 26 in Physical Review Letters, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions working on the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment have shown that they can shield a sensitive, scalable, 44 - kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity.