Assembly and Installation of the Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin — Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 (United States)
- 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, PO Box 5000, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)
- 3. Kellog Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
- 4. Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong (China)
- 5. Institute of High Energy Physics, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing (China)
- 6. Physical Sciences Laboratory, University of Wisconsin — Madison, 3725 Schneider Drive, Stoughton, WI 53589 (United States)
- 7. Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, 3101 South Dearborn St., Chicago, IL 60616 (United States)
- 8. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
- 9. Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 Eight Street, Troy, NY 12180 (United States)
- 10. Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai (China)
- 11. Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Sec 4, Taipei, Taiwan (China)
Description
The Daya Bay reactor antineutrino experiment is designed to make a precision measurement of the neutrino mixing angle θ13, and recently made the definitive discovery of its non-zero value. It utilizes a set of eight, functionally identical antineutrino detectors to measure the reactor flux and spectrum at baselines of ∼ 300–2000 m from the Daya Bay and Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plants. The Daya Bay antineutrino detectors were built in an above-ground facility and deployed side-by-side at three underground experimental sites near and far from the nuclear reactors. This configuration allows the experiment to make a precision measurement of reactor antineutrino disappearance over km-long baselines and reduces relative systematic uncertainties between detectors and nuclear reactors. This paper describes the assembly and installation of the Daya Bay antineutrino detectors
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/11/T11006Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Journal Volume
- 8
- Journal Issue
- 11
- Journal Page Range
- p. T11006
- ISSN
- 1748-0221
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 46042096
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANTINEUTRINOS; CONFIGURATION; DAYA BAY-1 REACTOR; DESIGN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; UNDERGROUND; WEINBERG ANGLE
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; LEVELS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS