Measurement of the muon-induced neutron yield in liquid scintillator and stainless steel at LNGS with the LVD experiment
Abstract
We describe the measurement of the muon-induced neutron yield in liquid scintillator and stainless steel (SS) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), with the LVD experiment. The Large Volume Detector (LVD) is located in Hall A of the LNGS and is made of 1000 t of liquid scintillator and 1000 t of SS. Using an independent measurement to evaluate the background and with the support of a full Monte Carlo simulation based on Geant4, we measured a neutron yield of (2.9±0.6)×10-4 and (1.5±0.3)×10-3 in liquid scintillator and in stainless steel, respectively.
- Publication:
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Low Radioactivity Techniques 2013 (LRT 2013)
- Pub Date:
- August 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4818116
- Bibcode:
- 2013AIPC.1549..235P
- Keywords:
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- liquid scintillation detectors;
- Monte Carlo methods;
- neutron detection;
- stainless steel;
- 29.40.Mc;
- Scintillation detectors