First ground-level laboratory test of the two-phase xenon emission detector RED-100
Creators
- Akimov, D.Y.1
- Belov, V.A.1
- Bolozdynya, A.I.1
- Etenko, A.V.1
- Galavanov, A.V.1
- Gouss, D.V.1
- Gusakov, Y.V.1
- Kdib, D.E.1
- Khromov, A.V.1
- Konovalov, A.M.1
- Kornoukhov, V.N.1
- Kovalenko, A.G.1
- Kozlova, E.S.1
- Kumpan, A.V.1
- Lukyashin, A.V.1
- Melikyan, Y.A.1
- Moramzin, V.V.1
- Nischeta, D.A.1
- Dolgolenko, A.G.2
- Efremenko, Y.V.3
- and others
- 1. National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow 115409 (Russian Federation)
- 2. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics named by A.I. Alikhanov of National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow 117218 (Russian Federation)
- 3. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200 (United States)
Description
RED-100 is a two-phase detector for study of coherent elastic scattering of reactor electron antineutrinos off xenon atomic nuclei. The detector contains a total of 200 kg of liquid xenon in a titanium cryostat with 160 kg of xenon in active volume inside a Teflon-made light collection cage associated with electrode system. The active volume is viewed by two arrays of nineteen 3''-diameter Hamamatsu R11410-20 PMTs assembled in two planes on top and bottom. The electrode system is equipped with an electron shutter (a patented device) to reduce a "spontaneous" single-electron noise. The detector was tested in a ground-level laboratory. The obtained results demonstrate that detection of coherent elastic scattering of reactor antineutrinos off xenon nuclei at Kalinin nuclear power plant with the RED-100 detector is feasible with a threshold of 4 ionization electrons.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/02/P02020Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Journal Volume
- 15
- Journal Issue
- 02
- Journal Page Range
- p. P02020
- ISSN
- 1748-0221
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 52078791
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- CRYOSTATS; DETECTION; ELASTIC SCATTERING; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON ANTINEUTRINOS; GROUND LEVEL; IONIZATION; NOISE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEI; TEFLON; TITANIUM; XENON
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTINEUTRINOS; ANTIPARTICLES; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRON NEUTRINOS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; EQUIPMENT; FERMIONS; FLUIDS; FLUORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; GASES; HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; LEPTONS; LEVELS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATERIALS; MATTER; METALS; NEUTRINOS; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PETROCHEMICALS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; PLASTICS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERS; POLYOLEFINS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POWER PLANTS; RARE GASES; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMOSTATS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS