Measuring fast neutrons with large liquid scintillator for ultra-low background experiments

Details Measuring fast neutrons with large liquid scintillator for ultra-low background experiments Measuring fast neutrons with large liquid scintillator for ultra-low background experiments

Mar 2012

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American Physical Society, APS April Meeting 2012, March 31-Apr 3, 2012, abstract #L14.009

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Characterizing neutron background is extremely important to the success of rare event physics research such as neutrinoless double-beta decay and dark matter searches. Measuring the energy spectrum of fast neutrons for an underground laboratory is difficult and it requires intensive R&D for a given technology. We developed a neutron detector that is constructed using an aluminum tube with one meter in length and 5 inch in diameter filled with 12 liter liquid scintillators. The inner surface of the tube is painted with specular reflector and there are two 5" PMTs(Hamamatsu H4144) attached to both ends. The detector is calibrated with cosmic muons and radioactive sources. Both position independent and position dependent methods are employed to analyze the experimental data. Good neutron/gamma discrimination is found from few MeV to 50MeV above. We report the result for the measurements of fast neutrons on the surface and at underground in Soudan Mine.

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