Published December 2018 | Version v1
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Muon induced neutron measurement setup at TIFR (MINT)

  • 1. India based Neutrino Observatory, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (India)
  • 2. Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (India)
  • 3. The Pelletron Linac facility, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (India)
  • 4. Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)

Description

Background minimization is extremely important for experiments involving rare decays like neutrinoless double beta decay (NDBD), dark matter (DM) search etc. Neutron background is one of the major sources which arises from natural radioactivity in surrounding materials (spontaneous fission and (α, n) reactions. High Z materials such as Pb, used for shielding α-ray background, enhances the production of neutrons from cosmic muons. Given the discrepancy between the existing measurements and simulations, independent measurements employing different techniques are very much important. With this motivation, we have developed the Muon Induced Neutron measurement setup at TIFR (MINT)

Part of:
Proceedings of the DAE international symposium on nuclear physics. V. 63

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Imprint Place
Mumbai (India)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the DAE international symposium on nuclear physics. V. 63
Imprint Pagination
1300 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 1146-1147

Conference

Title
63. DAE international symposium on nuclear physics
Dates
10-14 Dec 2018
Place
Mumbai (India)

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Notes
5 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab.