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Performance of the SoLid Reactor Neutrino Detector

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-10-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The SoLid collaboration is currently operating a 1.6 tons neutrino detector near the Belgian BR2 reactor, with main goal the observation of the oscillation of electron antineutrinos to previously undetected flavor states. The highly segmented SoLid detector employs a compound scintillation technology based on PVT scintillator in combination with a 6^{6}LiF:ZnS(Ag) screens containing 6^{6}Li isotopes. The experiment has demonstrated a channel-to-channel response that can be controlled to the one percent level, and energy resolution of better than 14\% at 1 MeV, and a determination of the interaction vertex with a precision of 5 cm. In this contribution we highlight the the current performance and stability of the full-scale system. The in-situ calibration results of the detector with various radioactive sources are discussed as well.

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@article{arxiv.1910.12842,
  title  = {Performance of the SoLid Reactor Neutrino Detector},
  author = {Luis Manzanillas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.12842},
  year   = {2019}
}

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