Gator: a low-background counting facility at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory
Gator: a low-background counting facility at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory
A low-background germanium spectrometer has been installed and is being operated in an ultra-low background shield (the Gator facility) at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy (LNGS). With an integrated rate of ∼ 0.16 events/min in the energy range between 100-2700 keV, the background is comparable to those of …