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Neutron detection and application with a novel 3D-projection scintillator tracker in the future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments
Physical Review D (2023)
  • S. Gwon
  • P. Granger
  • ..., ...
  • Michael A Kordosky, William & Mary
  • et al.
Abstract
Neutrino oscillation experiments require a precise measurement of the neutrino energy. However, the kinematic detection of the final-state neutron in the neutrino interaction is missing in current neutrino oscillation experiments. The missing neutron kinematic detection results in a smaller detected neutrino energy than the true neutrino energy. A novel 3D-projection scintillator tracker, which consists of roughly ten million active cubes covered with an optical reflector, is capable of measuring the neutron kinetic energy and direction on an event-by-event basis using the time-of-flight technique thanks to the fast timing, fine granularity, and high light yield. The ¯νμ interactions tend to produce neutrons in the final state. By measuring the neutron kinetic energy, the 
¯νμ energy can be reconstructed better, allowing a tighter incoming neutrino flux constraint. This article shows the detector’s ability to reconstruct neutron kinetic energy and the ¯νμ flux constraint achieved by selecting the charged-current interactions without mesons or protons in the final state.
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Publication Date
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.032012
Citation Information
S. Gwon, P. Granger, ..., Michael A Kordosky, et al.. "Neutron detection and application with a novel 3D-projection scintillator tracker in the future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments" Physical Review D Vol. 107 Iss. 3 (2023)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael-kordosky/23/