Cosmic Muon Induced Backgrounds in the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

2014/02/27 by Li Dengjie, Dengjie, Li
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #81V35 #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Muon and positron interactions and applications #Neutrino Physics Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1402.6876

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Abstract

Muon induced neutrons and long-lived radioactive isotopes are important background sources for low-energy underground experiments. We study the produced processes and properties of cosmic muon induced backgrounds, show the muon veto system used for rejecting these backgrounds and the methods to estimate residual backgrounds in the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment.

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