XENON1T observes tritium
arXiv:2006.13278
Abstract
XENON1T recently reported an excess of low-energy electron recoil events that may be attributable to either new physics or to the radioactive decay of tritium. It is likely that hydrogen is not be effectively removed by the hot zirconium getters deployed in the detector. Cosmogenic activation of the xenon underground is found to be insufficient to describe the observed excess, although gases diffusing out of detector materials from cosmogenic activation on surface may contribute. Changes in the operation of gas purification systems for XENON1T and other liquid nobel gas detectors could both confirm the tritium hypothesis and remove it from the detector.
Corrected equation 1. Typo corrections. Removed possibility that XENON1T doesn't contain a Hydrogen Removal Unit
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