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The deployment of a low-noise 3 kg p-type point contact germanium detector at the Dresden-II power reactor, 8 meters from its 2.96 GW$_{th}$ core, is described. This location provides an unprecedented (anti)neutrino flux of 8.1$\times…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-13 J. Colaresi , J. I. Collar , T. W. Hossbach , A. R. L. Kavner , C. M. Lewis , A. E. Robinson , K. M. Yocum

This paper examines neutron multiplicity spectra emitted from massive targets at depths of 3, 40, 210, 583, 1166, and 4000 m.w.e. The measurements, carried out between 2001 and 2024, used three experimental setups with either 14 or 60 He-3…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-23 W. H. Trzaska , A. Barzilov , T. Enqvist , K. Jedrzejczak , M. Kasztelan , P. Kuusiniemi , K. K. Loo , J. Orzechowski , M. Słupecki , J. Szabelski , T. E. Ward

While cosmic ray muons themselves are relatively easy to veto in underground detectors, their interactions with nuclei create more insidious backgrounds via: (i) the decays of long-lived isotopes produced by muon-induced spallation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Cristiano Galbiati , John. F. Beacom

The European Spallation Source being constructed in Lund, Sweden will provide the user community with a neutron source of unprecedented brightness. By 2025, a suite of 15 instruments will be served by a high-brightness moderator system…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-11 V. Santoro , K. H. Andersen , D. D. DiJulio , E. B. Klinkby , T. M. Miller , D. Milstead , G. Muhrer , M. Stroble , A. Takibayev , L. Zanini , O. Zimmer

The NNBAR experiment for the European Spallation Source will search for free neutrons converting to antineutrons with a sensitivity improvement of three orders of magnitude compared to the last such search. This paper describes progress…

There is a growing realization that neutrinos can be used as a diagnostic tool to better understand the inner workings of a nuclear weapon. Robust estimates demonstrate that an Inverse Beta Decay (IBD) neutrino scintillation detector built…

Measurements of the arrival directions of cosmic rays have not revealed their sources. High energy neutrino telescopes attempt to resolve the problem by detecting neutrinos whose directions are not scrambled by magnetic fields. The key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francis Halzen

Novel NaIL detector (5x6 inch) was investigated for aims of neutron detection in wide energy range. It has been found that the detector together with its known ability to detect the {\gamma}- radiation is also allows to distinguish neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-13 D. Ponomarev , D. Filosofov , J. Khushvaktov , A. Lubashevskiy , I. Rozova , S. Rozov , K. Shakhov , Yu. Shitov , V. Timkin , E. Yakushev , I. Zhitnikov

The SoLid experiment aims to resolve the reactor anti neutrino anomaly by searching for short baseline neutrino oscillations. The experiment makes use of a novel detector technology based on the combination of 5cm x 5cm x 5cm PVT cubes and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Celine Moortgat

In this paper, we investigate the single photon response from the reflection of the Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) array. Reflection measurements are carried out using two configurations: one is measured simultaneously with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Jie Hu , Faouzi Boussaha , Paul Nicaise , Christine Chaumont , Maria Appavou , Viet Dung Pham , Michel Piat

The European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden will become the world's most powerful thermal neutron source. The Macromolecular Diffractometer (NMX) at the ESS requires three 51.2 x 51.2~cm$^{2}$ detectors with reasonable detection…

An accurate characterization of the neutron fields at spallation sources is crucial for many applications based on neutron irradiations, such as radiation damage tests that need a precise dose estimate. In this work we present the neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-16 D. Chiesa , C. Cazzaniga , M. Nastasi , M. Rebai , C. D. Frost , G. Gorini , S. Lilley , S. Pozzi , E. Previtali

The recently developed Directional RElativistic Spectrum Simulator (DRESS) code has been validated for the first time against numerical calculations and experimental measurements performed on MAST. In this validation, the neutron…

Absolute measurements of neutron flux are an essential prerequisite of neutron-induced cross section measurements, neutron beam lines characterization and dosimetric investigations. A new gaseous detector has been developed for measurements…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-21 P. Marini , L. Mathieu , M. Aïche , J. -L. Pedroza , T. Chiron , P. Baron , S. Czajkowski , F. Druillole , P. Hellmuth , B. Jurado , A. Rebii , I. Tsekhanovich

We describe a new detector, called NuLat, to study electron anti-neutrinos a few meters from a nuclear reactor, and search for anomalous neutrino oscillations. Such oscillations could be caused by sterile neutrinos, and might explain the…

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a next-generation accelerator primarily designed to study the internal structure of nucleons through high-precision electron-hadron collisions. In this work, we explore the feasibility of employing a 1 MW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Nishat Fiza , Mehedi Masud , Kim Siyeon , Guang Yang

We show data from a new type of detector that can be used to determine neutron flux, energy distribution, and direction of neutron motion for both fast and thermal neutrons. Many neutron detectors are plagued by large backgrounds from…

The recent detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) opens the possibility to use neutrinos to explore physics beyond standard model, with small-size detectors. However, the CE$\nu$NS process generates signals at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-10 A. Simón

Bonner Spheres have been used widely for the measurement of neutron spectra with neutron energies ranged from thermal up to at least 20 MeV. A Bonner Sphere neutron spectrometer (BSS) was developed by extending a Berthold LB 6411…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 M. C. Chu , K. Y. Fung , T. Kwok , J. K. C. Leung , Y. C. Lin , H. Liu , K. B. Luk , H. Y. Ngai , C. S. J. Pun , H. L. H. Wong

Polarized neutron reflectometry is a powerful technique to interrogate the structures of multilayered magnetic materials with depth sensitivity and nanometer resolution. However, reflectometry profiles often inhabit a complicated objective…