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Technology of the SoLid detector and construction of the first submodule

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-08-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

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 6 LiF:ZnS screens. This technology provides an improvement for the background rejection capabilities, the neutron identification and the localization of the inverse beta decay compared to the standard liquid scintillators + Gd detectors. These proceedings discuss the construction and commissioning of the first module installed at the BR2 research reactor in SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium. Radioactive sources are used to study the light attenuation and to calibrate the energy response of the detector.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07603,
  title  = {Technology of the SoLid detector and construction of the first submodule},
  author = {Celine Moortgat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07603},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Proceedings of EPS HEP conference, Vienna 22nd-29th July 2015. 8 pages

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