Measurements using a prototype array of plastic scintillator bars for reactor based electron anti-neutrino detection

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العنوان: Measurements using a prototype array of plastic scintillator bars for reactor based electron anti-neutrino detection
المؤلفون: Netrakanti, P. K., Mulmule, D., Mishra, D. K., Behera, S. P., Dey, R., Sehgal, R., Sinha, S. K., Jha, V., Pant, L. M.
المصدر: Volume 1024, 1 February 2022, 166126
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
الوصف: We report measurement of reactor based electron anti-neutrinos from a prototype array of plastic scintillator bars ( mini-ISMRAN ) located inside Dhruva research reactor hall, BARC. The detector setup took data for 128 days for reactor on (RON) and 51 days for reactor off (ROFF) condition. A detailed analysis procedure is developed to select the anti-neutrino candidate events based on the energy deposition, number of bars hit as well as topological event selection criteria in position and time. Each of these selection criteria are compared with Monte Carlo based simulations and further an embedding technique is used to estimate the efficiencies from a data driven background study. The obtained anti-neutrino like events in RON condition are 218 $\pm$ 50 (stat) $\pm$ 37 (sys) after background subtraction. The obtained results are compared with theoretical estimation which yields 214 $\pm$ 32 (sys) anti-neutrino events for the RON condition.
Comment: 25 pages, 20 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2021.166126
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12952
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2112.12952
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2021.166126