Speaker
Description
Tritium is a naturally occurring radioisotope in the environment due to both cosmogenic activation and the modern nuclear fuel cycle. It also remains a problematic background contribution for dark matter and solar neutrino experiments. With a Q$_{\beta}$ value of 18.6 keV, it overlaps with the WIMP search and pp and $^7$Be neutrino search regions of interest. Additionally, tritium is a problematic surface contaminate due to its absorption onto metal and plastic surfaces. Despite these issues, tritium is hard to detect and independently measure at levels relevant to rare-event physics searches. To improve the tritium detection threshold for environmental and rare-event measurements, an electrolytic enrichment capability is being created that can be used to enable ultra-low level tritium quantification. A discussion of how the enrichment can improve current detection capabilities will be presented.