Published January 11, 2012 | Version v1
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A study of reactor neutrino monitoring at the experimental fast reactor JOYO

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Miyagi University of Education, Sendai 980-0845 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501 (Japan)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji 192-0397 (Japan)
  • 5. Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801 (Japan)
  • 6. Experimental Fast Reactor Department, Oarai Research and Development Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Oarai 311-1393 (Japan)
  • 7. Department of Physics, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181 (Japan)
  • 8. Department of Computer Science, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima 731-5193 (Japan)
  • 9. Department of Information Science, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai 981-3193 (Japan)
  • 10. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578 (Japan)

Description

We carried out a study of neutrino detection at the experimental fast reactor JOYO using a 0.76 tons gadolinium loaded liquid scintillator detector. The detector was set up on the ground level at 24.3 m from the JOYO reactor core of 140 MW thermal power. The measured neutrino event rate from reactor on-off comparison was 1.11±1.24(stat.)±0.46(syst.) events/day. Although the statistical significance of the measurement was not enough, backgrounds in such a compact detector at the ground level were studied in detail and MC simulations were found to describe the data well. A study for improvement of the detector for future such experiments is also shown.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.09.045

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2011.09.045;
arXiv
arXiv:1108.2910v1;
PII
S0168-9002(11)01817-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
662
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 90-100
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
44002400
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COSMIC RADIATION; GADOLINIUM; GROUND LEVEL; JOYO REACTOR; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NEUTRINOS; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SIMULATION
Descriptors DEC
BREEDER REACTORS; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; LEVELS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; POWER REACTORS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; RARE EARTHS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS

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