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G. P. Kovtun¹, R. S. Boiko², F. A. Danevich², B. N. Kropivyansky², V. M. Mokina², T. S. Potina¹, D. A. Solopikhin¹, I. A. Tupitsyna³, A. P. Shcherban¹, V. N. Shlegel<sup>4

1</sup>National Science Center "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", Kharkiv, Ukraine
²Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
³Institute for Scintillation Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
⁴Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract: Methods of deep purification of natural and isotopically enriched cadmium (Cd, ¹⁰⁶Cd, ¹¹⁶Cd), as well as of archaeological lead (^archPb), to produce cadmium and lead tungstate crystal scintillators have been developed. The basic stages of development and characteristics of the scintillators are described. The developed methods of initial materials purification and crystal growth can be used for the production of scintillators for large-scale high sensitivity experiments to search for rare events (double beta decay, dark matter, rare alpha and beta decays).

Keywords: scintillator, scintillation detector, refining, cadmium, isotopes of cadmium, archaeological lead, double beta decay.

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