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A H Abdelhameed1, G Angloher1, P Bauer1
11Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 Munich, Germany.
Abstract:
The CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) dark matter search experiment aims for the detection of dark matter particles via elastic scattering off nuclei in crystals. To understand the CRESST electromagnetic background due to the bulk contamination in the employed materials, a model based on Monte Carlo simulations was developed using the Geant4 simulation toolkit. The results of the simulation are applied to the TUM40 detector module of CRESST-II phase 2. We are able to explain up to of the electromagnetic background in the energy range between 1 and .
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