分类: 物理学 >> 普通物理:统计和量子力学,量子信息等 提交时间: 2017-11-10
摘要: The radioactive noble gas 222Rn, which can be dissolved in water, is an important background source for JUNO. In this paper, based on the water system of JUNO prototype, two kinds of high sensitivity radon detectors have been proposed and validated. The sensitivity of Si-PIN Rn detector, which uses Si-PIN photodiode to detect the -214Po, is 4.2 mBq/m3 and the sensitivity of LS Rn detector, which uses liquid scintillator to detect the coincident signals of -214Bi and -214Po, is 34.4 mBq/m3. Both of the two kinds of Rn detector have the potential to be developped into an online Rn concentration monitoring equipment for JUNO veto detector.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2016-09-13
摘要: At upcoming medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments the spallation 9Li background will be somewhat larger than the inverse beta decay reactor neutrino signal. We use new FLUKA simulations of spallation backgrounds to optimize a class of veto strategies and find that surprisingly the optimal veto for the mass hierarchy determination has a rejection efficiency below 90%. The unrejected background has only a modest effect on the physics goals. For example Δχ2 for the hierarchy determination falls by 1.4 to 3 points depending on the muon tracking ability. The optimal veto strategy is essentially insensitive to the tracking ability, consisting of 2 meter radius, 1.1 second cylindrical vetoes of well tracked muons with showering energies above 3 to 4 GeV and 0.7 second full detector vetoes for poorly tracked muons above 15 to 18 GeV. On the other hand, as the uncertainty in theta12 will be dominated by the uncertainty in the reactor neutrino spectrum and not statistical fluctuations, the optimal rejection efficiency for the measurement of theta12 is 93% in the case of perfect tracking.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2024-02-25
摘要: A combination of scintillator, wavelength shifting (WLS) fiber, and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) shows excellent performance in the `KLandμdetector (KLM)' of the Belle II experiment. We describe the RD for a similar detection technology with a new scintillator and SiPM, which can be implemented for a muon detector for the proposed CEPC experiment and the upgrade of KLM in Belle II. The RD contains the study of the performance of a new scintillator with a length of 150 cm, the NDL SiPM with a sensitive surface of 3 mm×3 mm or the Hamamatsu MPPC with a sensitive surface of 1.3 mm×1.3 mm, the construction of a detector strip, and the methods to achieve excellent light collection. The cosmic ray tests show good photon collections by NDL SiPM or MPPC, efficiencies well above 90% with a threshold of 8 p.e., and time resolutions of better than 1.7 ns for the hits at the far end of a scintillator strip. The performance shows a good option for an excellent muon detector for CEPC and the possible upgrade of Belle II KLM.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2016-09-05
摘要: Future large liquid-scintillator detectors can be implemented to observe neutrinos from a core-collapse supernova (SN) in our galaxy in various reaction channels: (1) The inverse beta decay ν¯¯¯e+p→n+e+; (2) The elastic neutrino-proton scattering ν+p→ν+p; (3) The elastic neutrino-electron scattering ν+e−→ν+e−; (4) The charged-current νe interaction νe+12C→e−+12N; (5) The charged-current ν¯¯¯e interaction ν¯¯¯e+12C→e++12B; (6) The neutral-current interaction ν+12C→ν+12C∗. The less abundant 13C atoms in the liquid scintillator are also considered as a target, and both the charged-current interaction νe+13C→e−+13N and the neutral-current interaction ν+13C→ν+13C∗ are taken into account. In this work, we show for the first time that a global analysis of all these channels at a single {liquid-}scintillator detector, such as Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), is very important to test the average-energy hierarchy of SN neutrinos and how the total energy is partitioned among neutrino flavors. In addition, the dominant channels for reconstructing neutrino spectra and the impact of other channels are discussed in great detail.
分类: 物理学 >> 交叉学科物理及相关领域的科学与技术 提交时间: 2024-01-17
摘要: A 20-kiloton liquid scintillator detector is designed in the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) for multiple physics purposes, including the determination of the neutrino mass ordering through reactor neutrinos, as well as measuring supernova neutrinos, solar neutrinos, and atmosphere neutrinos to explore different physics topics. Efficient reconstruction algorithms are needed to achieve these physics goals in a wide energy range from MeV to GeV. In this paper, we present a novel method for reconstructing the energy of events using hit information from 3-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and the OCCUPANCY method. Our algorithm exhibits good performance in accurate energy reconstruction, validated with electron Monte Carlo samples spanning kinetic energies from 10~MeV to 1~GeV.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 粒子加速器 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: Because of 3He shortage, sintillator is a promising alternative choice for neutron detection in the field of thermal neutron scattering and imaging. Also, the neutron detection efficiency is difficult to be determined. In this paper, the efficiency for thermal neutron detection is presented by inorganic scintillator using probability principles, supposed that the material of scintillator is uniform in element distribution, and that attenuation length of scintillation light is longer than that of its thickness in the scintillator. The efficiencies for two pieces of lithium glass are determined by this method, indicating the method is useful for determining efficiency of thermal neutron detections.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2016-09-13
摘要: Liquid scintillator (LS) will be adopted as the detector material in JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory). The energy resolution requirement of JUNO is 3%, which has never previously been reached. To achieve this energy resolution, the light yield of liquid scintillator is an important factor. PPO (the fluor) and bis-MSB (the wavelength shifter) are the two main materials dissolved in LAB. To study the influence of these two materials on the transmission of scintillation photons in LS, 25 and 12 cm-long quartz vessels were used in a light yield experiment. LS samples with different concentration of PPO and bis-MSB were tested. At these lengths, the light yield growth is not obvious when the concentration of PPO is higher than 4 g/L. The influence from bis-MSB becomes insignificant when its concentration is higher than 8 mg/L. This result could provide some useful suggestions for the JUNO LS.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2016-09-13
摘要: The fluorescence quantum yield of bis-MSB, a widely used liquid scintillator wavelength shifter, was measured to study the photon absorption and re-emission processes in liquid scintillator. The re-emission process affects the photoelectron yield and distribution, especially in a large liquid scintillator detector, thus must be understood to optimize the liquid scintillator for good energy resolution and to precisely simulate the detector with Monte Carlo. In this study, solutions of different bis-MSB concentration were prepared for absorption and fluorescence emission measurements to cover a broad range of wavelengths. Harmane was used as a standard reference to obtain the absolution fluorescence quantum yield. For the first time we measured the fluorescence quantum yield of bis-MSB up to 430 nm as inputs required by Monte Carlo simulation, which is 0.926±0.053 at λex = 350 nm.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2016-09-13
摘要: Linear alkylbenzene (LAB) is adopted to be the organic solvent for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) liquid scintillator detectors due to the ultra-transparency. However the current Rayleigh scattering length calculation disagrees with the measurement. The present paper for the first time reports the Rayleigh scattering of LAB being anisotropic and the depolarization ratio being 0.31+-0.01(stat.)+-0.01(sys.). We proposed an indirectly method for Rayleigh scattering measurement with Einstein-Smoluchowski-Cabannes formula, and the Rayleigh scattering length of LAB is determined to be 28.2+-1.0 m at 430 nm.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: With a Geant4 software package based on the Monte Carlo method, a multi-cell 4 detection system is designed, which consists of 40 Gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillation detectors. These detectors, associated with a fission chamber in its geometrical center, constitute a platform. This platform is mainly used for the measurement of a fissionable nucleus (n, 2n) reaction cross section. In order to properly determine the experimental set-up, we carry out a systematic numerical simulation using our model which is established by the Geant4 software package. This work provides rich and valuable reference data for experiments on the fissionable nucleus (n, 2n) cross section measurement in the future.
提交时间: 2017-05-02
摘要: In order to obtain a uniform transparent ceramic scintillator, well-dispersed fine starting powders with high-purity, small grain size, spherical morphology and high sinter-ability are necessary. In this study, Ce3+ doped gadolinium aluminum gallium garne
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: The experimental muon source on China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is expected to be a high intensity (105 +/s) surface muon source with a small beam spot of 4-cm diameter. For a practical application of this muon source, we are devoting to develop the first pulsed SR spectrometer in China. In this paper, the performance of plastic scintillators in the SR spectrometer is studied by Monte Carlo simulation. The processes such as positron energy deposition, scintillation photons production, light propagation and photon-electron conversion are carefully considered. According to the results, an optimal dimension of the plastic scintillator is proposed using for our future spectrometer, which has a long-strip shape with the dimension variation range of 5060 mm length, 58 mm height, and 1012 mm width. Finally, we can build a spectrometer with a count rate up to 104e+/s by 100120 forward and backward segmental detectors in total. The simulation could serve as an important guide for spectrometer construction.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2016-08-30
摘要: The liquid scintillator (LS) has been widely utilized in the past, running and future neutrino experiments, and requirement to the LS radio-purity is higher and higher. The water extraction is a powerful method to remove soluble radioactive nuclei, and a mini-extraction station has been constructed. To evaluate the extraction efficiency and optimize the operation parameters, a setup to load radioactivity to LS and a laboratory scale setup to measure radioactivity which use Bi^{212}-Po^{212}-Pb^{208} cascade decay are developed. Experiences from laboratory study will be useful to large scale water extraction plants design and the optimization of working in future.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 分类: 工程与技术科学 >> 工程通用技术 提交时间: 2024-06-21
摘要: For tracking and tagging the cosmic-ray muon (CR-muon), the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) experiment is equipped with a top veto tracker (TVT) system composed of 160 modules, each consisting of plastic scintillator (PS) strip as target material, embedded wavelength shifting fiber (WLS-fiber) as photon collection and transmission medium, and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) at both ends as read-out. This article introduces the unique design of the module and reports the excellent performance of all modules, providing guidance and important reference for the process design of scintillation detectors with WLS-fibers. In general, when the CR-muon hits the center of plastic scintillator and without optical grease, the most probable value of the signal amplitude at one end of the PS strip is greater than 40.8 p.e. and 51.5 p.e. for all the 2 m-length modules and 1.5 m-length modules respectively. The CR-muon tagging efficiency of PS module is measured to be more than 99.3%, which meets the requirement of TAO.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2016-09-12
摘要: Nuclear recoil events produced by neutron scatters form one of the most important classes of background in WIMP direct detection experiments, as they may produce nuclear recoils that look exactly like WIMP interactions. In DarkSide-50, we both actively suppress and measure the rate of neutron-induced background events using our neutron veto, composed of a boron-loaded liquid scintillator detector within a water Cherenkov detector. This paper is devoted to the description of the neutron veto system of DarkSide-50, including the detector structure, the fundamentals of event reconstruction and data analysis, and basic performance parameters.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核科学与技术 提交时间: 2023-08-27
摘要: As a unique probe, precision measurement of textit{pp} solar neutrinos is important for studying the Sun's energy mechanism, monitoring thermodynamic equilibrium, and studying neutrino oscillation in the vacuum-dominated region. For a large-scale liquid scintillator detector, one bottleneck for textit{pp} solar neutrino detection comes from pile-up events of intrinsic $^{14}$C decays. This paper presents a few approaches to discriminate textit{pp} solar neutrinos and $^{14}$C pile-up events by considering the difference in their time and spatial distributions. In this work, a Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulation is constructed. Then multivariate analysis and deep learning technology were adopted respectively to investigate the capability of $^{14}$C pile-up reduction. As a result, the BDTG model and VGG network showed good performance in discriminating textit{pp} solar neutrinos and $^{14}$C double pile-up events. hl{At the $^{14}$C concentration assumption $5 times10^{-18} g/g$,} their signal significance can achieve 10.3 and 15.6 using only one day of statistics. In this case, the signal efficiency is 51.1 % for discrimination using the BDTG model when rejecting 99.18 % $^{14}$C double pile-up events, and the signal efficiency is 42.7 % for the case using the VGG network when rejecting 99.81 % $^{14}$C double pile-up events.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: A monitoring system based on a CaF2 flow-cell detector was previously developed for measuring the tritium concentration in water. The flow-cell detector was fabricated using a granular CaF2(Eu) solid scintillator. In the present study, the effect of lead shielding on the measurement sensitivity was investigated. First, measurements were carried out both on tritium water and tritium-free water without the use of shielding. Counts were accumulated for either 600 or 10 000 s and the detection limits without shielding were calculated. Second, the effect of shielding was evaluated using background radiation. Lead blocks with a thickness of 5 cm were used as shielding materials. Full shielding around the entire measurement system reduced the background count by 53.8%. Approximating this to a background reduction of 2 times, the detection limit with full shielding was then calculated. It was concluded that 5-cm-thick lead shielding reduced the detection limit for tritium by at least 35%
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2023-07-14
摘要: Plastic scintillator (PS) embedding wavelength shifting (WLS) fiber is widely used in high energy particle physics, as muon taggers, and also in medical physics and other applications. In this work, a simulation package is built to evaluate the effects of the diameter and the layout of the optical fiber on the light yield with different configurations. The optimal optical configuration was designed based on the simulation and then validated with two PS prototypes under certain experimental conditions. In the study, the top veto tracker (TVT) of the JUNO#2; TAO experiment, comprised of 4 layers of 160 strips of PS was designed and evaluated. When a muon taggingefficiency of a PS strip is higher than 99%, the threshold is evaluated. The efficiency of 3-layer out of 4-layer of TVT will be higher than 99% even with the tagging efficiency of a single strip as low as 97% using a threshold of 10 p.e. assuming 40% SiPM PDE.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: A compact X-ray detector based on the lutetium yttrium oxyorthosilicate scintillator (LYSO) and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) has been designed and fabricated for the hard X-ray diagnosis on the HL_2A and HL_2M Tokamak devices. The LYSO scintillator and SiPM in small dimensions were combined in a heat shrink tube package, making the detector compact and integrative. The Monte Carlo particle transport simulation tool, Geant4, was utilized for the design of the detector for the hard X-ray from 10 keV to 200 keV and the best structure scheme was presented. Finally, the detector was used to measure the photon spectrum of a 137Cs gamma source with a pre-amplifier and a multichannel amplitude analyzer. The measured spectrum is consistent with the theoretic spectrum, it has shown that the energy resolution of the detector is less than 14.8% at an energy of 662 keV.