为 COHERENT 实验模拟散裂中子源的中微子通量
高能物理 - 实验
2022-03-31 v2 核实验
摘要
橡树岭国家实验室的散裂中子源（SNS）是一个脉冲式中子源，并且作为该运行的副产品，通过停止π介子衰变成为强烈的脉冲式中微子源。COHERENT 合作组利用该源，借助一套探测器研究相干弹性中微子-核散射及其他物理。本工作包括我们对 SNS 中中微子产生的 Geant4 模拟描述，以及为 COHERENT 研究提供依据的通量计算。基于与现有低能π介子产生数据的比对验证，我们估计该计算的不确定性约为 10%。
引用
@article{arxiv.2109.11049,
title = {Simulating the neutrino flux from the Spallation Neutron Source for the COHERENT experiment},
author = {COHERENT Collaboration and D. Akimov and P. An and C. Awe and P. S. Barbeau and B. Becker and V. Belov and I. Bernardi and M. A. Blackston and C. Bock and A. Bolozdynya and J. Browning and B. Cabrera-Palmer and D. Chernyak and E. Conley and J. Daughhetee and J. Detwiler and K. Ding and M. R. Durand and Y. Efremenko and S. R. Elliott and L. Fabris and M. Febbraro and J. Galambos and A. Gallo Rosso and A. Galindo-Uribarri and M. P. Green and M. R. Heath and S. Hedges and D. Hoang and M. Hughes and E. Iverson and T. Johnson and A. Khromov and A. Konovalov and E. Kozlova and A. Kumpan and L. Li and J. M. Link and J. Liu and K. Mann and D. M. Markoff and J. Mastroberti and M. McIntyre and P. E. Mueller and J. Newby and D. S. Parno and S. I. Penttila and D. Pershey and R. Rapp and H. Ray and J. Raybern and O. Razuvaeva and D. Reyna and G. C. Rich and D. Rimal and J. Ross and D. Rudik and J. Runge and D. J. Salvat and A. M. Salyapongse and K. Scholberg and A. Shakirov and G. Simakov and G. Sinev and W. M. Snow and V. Sosnovstsev and B. Suh and R. Tayloe and K. Tellez-Giron-Flores and I. Tolstukhin and S. Trotter and E. Ujah and J. Vanderwerp and R. L. Varner and C. J. Virtue and G. Visser and T. Wongjirad and Y. -R. Yen and J. Yoo and C. -H. Yu and J. Zettlemoyer and S. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11049},
year = {2022}
}