Published September 11, 2015 | Version v1
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Waterproofed photomultiplier tube assemblies for the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment

Creators

  • 1. Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Siena College, Loudonville, NY 12211 (United States)
  • 3. Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 (United States)
  • 5. Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5005 (United States)
  • 6. School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 (China)
  • 7. Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049 (China)
  • 8. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  • 9. Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 (United States)
  • 10. Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210000 (China)

Description

In the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment 960 20-cm-diameter waterproof photomultiplier tubes are used to instrument three water pools as Cherenkov detectors for detecting cosmic-ray muons. Of these 960 photomultiplier tubes, 341 are recycled from the MACRO experiment. A systematic program was undertaken to refurbish them as waterproof assemblies. In the context of passing the water leakage check, a success rate better than 97% was achieved. Details of the design, fabrication, testing, operation, and performance of these waterproofed photomultiplier-tube assemblies are presented

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.05.002

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2015.05.002;
arXiv
arXiv:1502.06652v1;
PII
S0168-9002(15)00592-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
794
Journal Page Range
p. 25-32
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
47030612
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
CHERENKOV COUNTERS; COSMIC RADIATION; DAYA BAY-1 REACTOR; DESIGN; FABRICATION; MUONS; NEUTRINOS; OPERATION; PERFORMANCE; TESTING; WATER
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FERMIONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

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