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Evaluation of gadolinium’s action on water Cherenkov detector systems with EGADS
| العنوان: | Evaluation of gadolinium’s action on water Cherenkov detector systems with EGADS |
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| المؤلفون: | Marti, Ll., Ikeda, M., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okajima, Y., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Tanaka, H., Ueno, K., Yamada, S., Yano, T., Yokozawa, T., Murdoch, M., Schuemann, J., Vagins, M.R., Bays, K., Carminati, G., Griskevich, N.J., Kropp, W.R., Locke, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M.B., Weatherly, P., Ito, S., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Yamaguchi, R., Fernandez, P., Labarga, L., Bandac, I., Perez, J., Amey, J., Litchfield, R.P., Sztuc, A., Uchida, Y., Ma, W.Y., Goldsack, A., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Anthony, L.H.V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Cole, A., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Imber, J., Cao, S.V., Ito, K., Takeuchi, Y., Akutsu, R., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Hirota, S., Muto, F., Yokoyama, M., Suda, Y., Zhang, H. |
| المصدر: | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | Okayama University Scientific Achievement Repository / 岡山大学学術成果リポジトリ |
| الوصف: | Used for both proton decay searches and neutrino physics, large water Cherenkov (WC) detectors have been very successful tools in particle physics. They are notable for their large masses and charged particle detection capabilities. While current WC detectors reconstruct charged particle tracks over a wide energy range, they cannot efficiently detect neutrons. Gadolinium (Gd) has the largest thermal neutron capture cross section of all stable nuclei and produces an 8 MeV gamma cascade that can be detected with high efficiency. Because of the many new physics opportunities that neutron tagging with a Gd salt dissolved in water would open up, a large-scale R&D program called EGADS was established to demonstrate this technique’s feasibility. EGADS features all the components of a WC detector, chiefly a 200-ton stainless steel water tank furnished with 240 photo-detectors, DAQ, and a water system that removes all impurities from water while keeping Gd in solution. In this paper we discuss the milestones towards demonstrating the feasibility of this novel technique, and the features of EGADS in detail. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 01689002 |
| العلاقة: | https://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/files/public/5/58713/20200707162321580569/fulltext.pdfTest; https://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/58713Test |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.163549Test https://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/files/public/5/58713/20200707162321580569/fulltext.pdfTest https://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/58713Test |
| حقوق: | © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.91B5DF1B |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 01689002 |
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