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. 2021 Apr 20;81(4):337. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08777-z

Table 7.

222Rn emanation measurements of various other samples. For comparison the 226Ra bulk activity taken from [10] is quoted and referred to as RID (Radioassay-ID) defined there

ID Sample Supplier Description 222Rn emanation rate 226Ra activity [10]
#37 R11410 PMTs Hamamatsu 29 pieces, mixture of low performance PMTs and mechanical samples (58 ± 28) μBq (2.0 ± 1.0) μBq/PMT RID #69(600 ± 100) μBq/PMT
#38 PMT bases Fralock 55 pieces, made of Cirlex with soldered resistors and capacitors

(129 ± 25) μBq

(2.4 ± 0.5) μBq/piece

RID #94

(15 ± 2) μBq/piece

#39 Kapton single wire cable Accu-Glass 30 AWG solid core wire 100 m/0.076 kg for high voltage supply (used in XENON1T)

  35   μBq

  0.35   μBq/m

460   μBq/kg

RID #57

(4000 ± 1000) μBq/kg

#40 Kapton coaxial cable Accu-Glass 30 AWG, 50 Ω cable 100 m/0.55 kg for signal readout (not used in XENON1T)

25 μBq

  0.25 μBq/m

45 μBq/kg

#41 PTFE coaxial cable Huber & Suhner RG196 78 m/0.594 kg for signal readout (not used in XENON1T)

44 μBq

0.56 μBq/m

74 μBq/kg

RID #59

(1000 ± 300) μBq/kg

#42 PTFE coaxial cable koax24 RG196 182 m/1.59 kg for signal readout (used in XENON1T)

58 μBq

0.32 μBq/m

36 μBq/kg

RID #55 and #56

(400 ± 200) μBq/kg

#43 D-sub type contact pins Accu-Glass 1200 male and female pieces made of Cu/Be and Cu/bronze

47 μBq

0.039 μBq/piece

#44 Epoxy for potting Reliable Hermetic Seals 3 discs 9.5 mm thick, 95 mm diameter 506 cm2/191 cm3/0.47 kg 51 μBq 1000 μBq/m2
#45 PTFE panels Amsler & Frey

67 pieces, total: 4.06 m2/31.9 kg

Length: 19 cm–24.5 cm

Width: 13 cm–19 cm

Thickness: 0.5 cm–1.6 cm

(97 ± 21) μBq

(24 ± 5) μBq/m2

(3.0 ± 0.7) μBq/kg

RID #50

<120μBq/kg

#46 Copper rods Luvata 150 pieces, each 15 cm long and 2 cm diameter 1.5 m2/7069 cm3/56.7 kg

25 μBq

17 μBq/m2

0.44 μBq/kg

#47 220Rn calibration source [27]a PTB Electro-deposited 228Th on stainless steel disc   46   μBq

aThe limit presented here differs slightly from the result published in [27] (55μBq) due to a data re-evaluation