Knowledge of antineutrino interaction cross-sections is an important and necessary ingredient in many measurements. With the advent of new precision experiments, the demands on better understanding ...of neutrino interactions is becoming even greater. The purpose of this report is to survey our current knowledge of the inverse beta decay cross-sections and to do a comparison the theoretical analysis with experimental data.
For SOX experiment with intense 144Ce-144Pr source, the antineutrino spectrum from two 144Pr decay branches should be calculated with high precision. We analyze the factors that affect beta- and ...antineutrino spectrum and give methods for their calculation.
Industrial Detector of REactor Antineutrinos for Monitoring (iDREAM) is a 1 ton Gd-doped liquid scintillator detector mounted in the Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia), 20 m from the 3 GW
VVER type ...commercial reactor. Antineutrinos are detected via inverse beta decay on protons. Beginning in 2021, the detector is collecting data both in reactor ON and OFF modes. The first iDREAM antineutrino results are presented, showing no doubt on the proper operation of the detector as a counting device.
The iDREAM (industrial Detector for reactor antineutrino monitoring) project is aimed at remote monitoring of the operating modes of the atomic reactor on nuclear power plant to ensure a technical ...support of IAEA non-proliferation safeguards. The detector is a scintillator spectrometer. The sensitive volume (target) is filled with a liquid organic scintillator based on linear alkylbenzene where reactor antineutrinos will be detected via inverse beta-decay reaction. We present first results of laboratory tests after physical launch. The detector was deployed at sea level without background shielding. The number of calibrations with radioactive sources was conducted. All data were obtained by means of a slow control system which was put into operation.
Reactor antineutrino detector iDREAM Gromov, M B; Lukyanchenko, G A; Novikova, G J ...
Journal of physics. Conference series,
09/2017, Letnik:
888, Številka:
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Industrial Detector for Reactor Antineutrino Monitoring (iDREAM) is a compact (≈ 3.5m2) industrial electron antineutrino spectrometer. It is dedicated for remote monitoring of PWR reactor operational ...modes by neutrino method in real-time. Measurements of antineutrino flux from PWR allow to estimate a fuel mixture in active zone and to check the status of the reactor campaign for non-proliferation purposes. LAB-based gadolinium doped scintillator is exploited as a target. Multizone architecture of the detector with gamma-catcher surrounding fiducial volume and plastic muon veto above and below ensure high efficiency of IBD detection and background suppression. DAQ is based on Flash ADC with PSD discrimination algorithms while digital trigger is programmable and flexible due to FPGA. The prototype detector was started up in 2014. Preliminary works on registration Cerenkov radiation produced by cosmic muons were established with distilled water inside the detector in order to test electronic and slow control systems. Also in parallel a long-term measurements with different scintillator samples were conducted.
Prototype of industrial reactor antineutrino detector iDREAM is dedicated for an experiment to demonstrate the possibility of remote monitoring of PWR reactor operational modes by neutrino method in ...real-time in order to avoid undeclared exposure modes for nuclear fuel and unauthorized removal of isotopes. The prototype detector was started up in 2014. To test the detector elements and components of electronics distilled water has been used as a target, which enables the use of Cerenkov radiation from cosmic muons as a physical signal. Also parallel measuring of the long-term stability has been doing for samples of liquid organic scintillator doped with gadolinium and synthesized by different methods
The stability of a liquid organic scintillator based on linear alkylbenzene in a volume of 1 m
3
was measured. The measurements were performed using an iDREAM reactor antineutrino detector at the ...National Research Center Kurchatov Institute. No systemic degradation of the scintillator light yield within an observation time of 225 days was observed. These long-term stability measurements of a large-volume liquid organic scintillator based on linear alkylbenzene are the first in Russia.
The technology of preparing a linear-alkylbenzene-based gadolinium-doped liquid organic scintillator (Gd-LOS) as a target material in reactor antineutrino detectors has been developed. Results of ...longterm measurements of the light yield of Gd-LOS in contact with acryl and stainless steel are presented, which confirm the compatibility of Gd-LOS with these materials. The measurements were performed for two otherwise identical LOS detectors only differing in wall materials of the sensitive volume: acryl versus stainless steel. The results of measurements over about one year showed almost the same, relatively small decreases in the light yield of both detectors. It is concluded that both structural materials can be used in detector parts contacting with Gd-doped scintillator. Such a long-term parallel comparative test was carried out for the first time.
The results of beta spectrum calculations for two
144
Pr decay branches are presented, which are of interest for reconstructing the spectrum of antineutrinos from the
144
Ce–
144
Pr source to be used ...in the SOX experiment on the search for sterile neutrinos. The main factors affecting the beta spectrum are analyzed, their calculation methods are given, and calculations are compared with experiment.
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