In-situ environmental radiation background measurement in the second phase of CJPL

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Authors: Peng Zhang, Zhenhua Zeng, Jiang Cheng, Hui Ma
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Abstract

China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL), the deepest and largest underground laboratory worldwide, provides a low radiation background environment, which is necessary to frontier scientific research, such as the experimental studies of rare-event physics. Due to the almost filled space of CJPL-I and the requirement of future physics experiments, the construction of the second phase of CJPL (CJPL-II) was started in 2020 and all finished in 2024. In this work, we report the measured results of major environmental radiation in CJPL-II, including cosmic-ray muons, radon, gamma rays, and neutrons. Results indicate that the rock overburden and the radioactive background control effectively minimize the environmental radiation background. The scientific data presented also serve as an important basis to detector background modeling for the physics experiments in CJPL-II.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena Neutrino Physics Research Particle Detector Development and Performance

Publication details

Pages
396–396
Publication date
3 September 2026