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The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment

Author(s): Agnes, P; Agostino, L; Albuquerque, IFM; Alexandere, T; Alton, AK; et al

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Abstract: Nuclear recoil events produced by neutron scatters form one of the most important classes of background in WIMP direct detection experiments, as they may produce nuclear recoils that look exactly like WIMP interactions. In DarkSide-50, we both actively suppress and measure the rate of neutron-induced background events using our neutron veto, composed of a boron-loaded liquid scintillator detector within a water Cherenkov detector. This paper is devoted to the description of the neutron veto system of DarkSide-50, including the detector structure, the fundamentals of event reconstruction and data analysis, and basic performance parameters.
Publication Date: Mar-2016
Electronic Publication Date: 16-Mar-2016
Citation: Agnes, P, Agostino, L, Albuquerque, IFM, Alexandere, T, Alton, AK, Arisaka, K, Back, HO, Baldin, B, Biery, K, Bonfini, G, Bossa, M, Bottino, B, Brigatti, A, Brodsky, J, Budano, F, Bussino, S, Cadeddu, M, Cadonati, L, Cadoni, M, Calaprice, F, Canci, N, Candela, A, Cao, H, Cariello, M, Carlini, M, Catalanotti, S, Cavalcante, P, Chepurnov, A, Cocco, AG, Covone, G, Crippa, L, D Angelo, D, D Incecco, M, Davini, S, De Cecco, S, De Deo, M, De Vincenzi, M, Derbin, A, Devoto, A, Di Eusanio, F, Di Pietro, G, Edkins, E, Empl, A, Fan, A, Fiorillo, G, Fomenko, K, Foster, G, Franco, D, Gabriele, F, Galbiati, C, Giganti, C, Goretti, AM, Granato, F, Grandi, L, Gromov, M, Guan, M, Guardincerri, Y, Hackett, BR, Herner, KR, Hungerford, EV, Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, James, I, Johnson, T, Jollet, C, Keeter, K, Kendziora, CL, Kobychev, V, Koh, G, Korablev, D, Korga, G, Kubankin, A, Li, X, Lissia, M, Lombardi, P, Luitz, S, Ma, Y, Machulin, IN, Mandarano, A, Mari, SM, Maricic, J, Marini, L, Martoff, CJ, Meregaglia, A, Meyers, PD, Miletic, T, Milincic, R, Montanari, D, Monte, A, Montuschi, M, Monzani, ME, Mosteiro, P, Mount, BJ, Muratova, VN, Musico, P, Napolitano, J, Nelson, A, Odrowski, S, Orsini, M, Ortica, F, Pagani, L, Pallavicini, M, Pantic, E, Parmeggiano, S, Pelczar, K, Pelliccia, N, Perasso, S, Pocar, A, Pordes, S, Pugachev, DA, Qian, H, Randle, K, Ranucci, G, Razeto, A, Reinhold, B, Renshaw, AL, Romani, A, Rossi, B, Rossi, N, Rountree, SD, Sablone, D, Saggese, P, Saldanha, R, Sands, W, Sangiorgio, S, Savarese, C, Segreto, E, Semenov, DA, Shields, E, Singh, PN, Skorokhvatov, MD, Smirnov, O, Sotnikov, A, Stanford, C, Suvorov, Y, Tartaglia, R, Tatarowicz, J, Testera, G, Tonazzo, A, Trinchese, P, Unzhakov, EV, Vishneva, A, Vogelaar, RB, Wada, M, Walker, S, Wang, H, Wang, Y, Watson, AW, Westerdale, S, Wilhelmi, J, Wojcik, MM, Xiang, X, Xu, J, Yang, C, Yoo, J, Zavatarelli, S, Zec, A, Zhong, W, Zhu, C, Zuzel, G. (2016). The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment. JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, 11 (10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/P03016
DOI: doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/P03016
ISSN: 1748-0221
Pages: P03016-1 - P03016-38
Type of Material: Journal Article
Journal/Proceeding Title: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
Version: Author's manuscript



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