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Instructions

To use the simple search page, simply enter a value that you would like to search for. This search will return all documents from the database where any of the fields contain the search value.

The advanced search page allows for assembly multi-term queries where each term describes a condition for a specific field.

• Use the field dropdown to select the document field to search on.
• The options in the comparison dropdown change depending on what field is currently selected, in order to only display valid comparison types for that field. For example, the "grouping" field cannot be compared against a value using the "greater than" comparison because the value should be a word, not a number.
• Enter any text or numbers into the value field as the value to compare the specified field against using the specified comparison operator.
• The include synonyms checkbox forces the query to not only search for the exact value in the "value" field, but also for all synonyms of that value that are on record. For example, if "copper" is entered into the "value" textbox and the "include synonyms" box is checked, the query will search for documents containing "copper" or "Cu." This option is checked by default. Deselect this box in order to only search for the exact value in the "value" field.
• Click on the AND button to add another term to the query using the "and" conjunction. This causes the query to search for documents where the current term (that was just added) is fulfilled AND the next term (that is about to be added) is also fulfilled.
• Click on the OR button to add another term to the query using the "or" conjunction. This causes the query to search for documents where either the next term OR the current term is fulfilled.

Example: search for documents where the sample description contains the word "copper" or "Cu" and the grouping is "ILIAS UKDM" by:

1. selecting "sample.description" from the "field" dropdown,
2. selecting "contains" from the "comparison" dropdown,
3. entering the word "copper" into the "value" textbox (do not deselect the "include synonyms" box),
4. pressing the "AND" button,
5. selecting "grouping" from the "field" dropdown,
6. selecting "equals" from the "comparison" dropdown,
7. entering the phrase "ILIAS UKDM" into the "value" field, and
8. pressing the "search" button.

As terms are added to the query, the previously added terms are displayed above the query creation boxes in the "current query" section. Once the search is pressed, the final query is displayed below the creation boxes in the "final query" section and the results are displayed at the bottom of the page as a list of summaries. To view more details on an individual document in the results list, click on its summary. Click on the summary again to hide the full document.

Data

• Majorana (2016) from N. Abgrall et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 828 (2016).

• LUX from D.S. Akerib et al., Astropart. Phys. 62 (2014) 33-44.

• SuperCDMS from The SuperCDMS Collaboration (personal communication, 2014).

• BetaCage from Z. Ahmed et al., JINST 9 (2014).

• EDELWEISS (2011) from E. Armengaud et al., Astropart. Phys. 47 (2013).

• XENON100 (2011) from E. Aprile et al., Astropart. Phys., 35 (2011).

• EXO (2008) from D.S.Leonard et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 591 (2008).

• BOREXINO (2002) from C. Apresella et al., Astropart. Phys., 18 (2002).

• Rau (2000) from W. Rau & G. Heusser, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 53 (2000).

• ILIAS ANAIS from the ILIAS database.

• ILIAS CAST from the ILIAS database.

• ILIAS CRESST from the ILIAS database.

• ILIAS Edelweiss from the ILIAS database.

• ILIAS UKDM from the ILIAS database.

• ILIAS ROSEBUD from the ILIAS database.

• Xenon1T from Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77:890.

Collaboration

Citation

The publication for the original radiopurity database can be found here and cited as:

J.C. Loach et al., A Database for Storing the Results of Material Radiopurity Measurements, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 839 (2016).

Acknowledgements

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is operated by Battelle for the United States Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract no. DE-AC05-76RL01830. This study was supported by the DOE, USA Office of High Energy Physics Advanced Technology R&D subprogram. The authors would like to thank SNOLAB and its staff for support through underground space, logistical and technical services. SNOLAB operations are supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Province of Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, with underground access provided by Vale at the Creighton mine site.

The original work was supported by: the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231; by the Shanghai Key Lab for Particle Physics and Cosmology (SKLPPC), Grant No. 11DZ2260700; by the Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP) funded by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association; and by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY 124260 awarded to the AARM (Assay and Acquisition of Radiopure Materials) collaboration.

We acknowledge support and guidance from colleagues in the underground science community, including from the AARM, ILIAS, EXO, XENON100, SuperCDMS and Majorana collaborations.

Contact/Assistance

radiopurity@snolab.ca