用于直接暗物质探测的μ子诱发中子测量系统
天体物理仪器与方法
2010-06-17 v1
摘要
μ子诱发的中子是许多低计数率实验（即直接暗物质探测）中的主要本底成分。本文描述了一种用于在地下实验室（莫当地下实验室）测量该本底的中子探测器。该系统基于1立方米的掺钆闪烁体，并与EDELWEISS-II实验的μ子反符合探测器相连，用于符合μ子探测。该系统于2008年秋季安装，此后通过了一系列调试测试，证明了其完全功能性。数据采集持续进行，已实现约每天1个μ子诱发中子的计数率。
引用
@article{arxiv.1006.3098,
title = {A detection system to measure muon-induced neutrons for direct Dark Matter searches},
author = {V. Yu. Kozlov and E. Armengaud and C. Augier and A. Benoit and L. Berge and O. Besida and J. Blumer and A. Broniatowski and V. Brudanin and A. Chantelauze and M. Chapellier and G. Chardin and F. Charlieux and S. Collin and X. Defay and M. De Jesus and P. Di Stefano and Y. Dolgorouki and J. Domange and L. Dumoulin and K. Eitel and J. Gascon and G. Gerbier and M. Gros and M. Hannawald and S. Herve and A. Juillard and H. Kluck and R. Lemrani and P. Loaiza and A. Lubashevskiy and S. Marnieros and X. -F. Navick and E. Olivieri and P. Pari and B. Paul and S. Rozov and V. Sanglard and S. Scorza and S. Semikh and A. S. Torrento-Coello and L. Vagneron and M-A. Verdier and E. Yakushev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.3098},
year = {2010}
}
备注
Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics; 14 pages, 10 figures