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Experiments towards a neutron target for measurements in inverse kinematics
S. F. Dellmann, C. M. Harrington, O. R. Cantrell +28
Neutron-induced reactions play an important role in fundamental nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, and applications. In the case of reactions on rare isotopes, there are limite…
COHERENT Collaboration data release from the measurements of CsI[Na] response to nuclear recoils
D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +75
Description of the data release 10.13139/OLCF/1969085 (https://doi.ccs.ornl.gov/ui/doi/426) from the measurements of the CsI[Na] response to low energy nuclear recoils by the COHER…
CLARION2-TRINITY: a Compton-suppressed HPGe and GAGG:Ce-Si-Si array for absolute cross-section measurements with heavy ions
T. J. Gray, J. M. Allmond, D. T. Dowling +26
The design and performance of a new Compton-suppressed HPGe and charged-particle array, CLARION2-TRINITY, are described. The TRINITY charged-particle array is comprised of 64 Ceriu…
Development of a novel, windowless, amorphous selenium based photodetector for use in liquid noble detectors
M. Rooks, S. Abbaszadeh, J. Asaadi +6
Detection of the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) scintillation light produced by liquid noble elements is a central challenge in order to fully exploit the available timing, topological,…
Optical properties of low background PEN structural components for the LEGEND-200 experiment
L. Manzanillas, Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro +6
Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN) plastic scintillator has been identified as potential self-vetoing structural material in low-background physics experiments. Scintillating component…
Light Response of Poly(ethylene 2,6-napthalate) to Neutrons
Brennan Hackett, Richard deBoer, Yuri Efremenko +21
There is increasing necessity for low background active materials as ton-scale, rare-event and cryogenic detectors are developed. Poly(ethylene-2,6-naphthalate) (PEN) has been cons…
Photon counting from the vacuum ultraviolet to the short wavelength infrared using semiconductor and superconducting technologies
Jonathan Asaadi, Dan Baxter, Karl K. Berggren +27
In the last decade, several photon counting technologies have been developed opening a new window for experiments in the low photon number regime. Several ongoing and future projec…
Light Output Quenching in Response to Deuterium-ions and Alpha Particles and Pulse Shape Discrimination in Deuterated Trans-stilbene
J. Zhou, N. Gaughan, F. D. Becchetti +4
We characterized the light output response of a new 140 cm3 stilbene-d12 crystal up to 14.1 MeV neutron energies using a coincidence neutron scattering system. We also characterize…
Monitoring the SNS basement neutron background with the MARS detector
COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +75
We present the analysis and results of the first dataset collected with the MARS neutron detector deployed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) for…
Development of a Pulsed VUV Light Source With Adjustable Intensity
A. D. McDonald, M. Febbraro, J. Asaadi +1
This paper describes the development of a pulsed light source using the discharge from an electrode in a medium of various noble gases. This source can be used to aid in the charac…
Measurement of scintillation response of CsI[Na] to low-energy nuclear recoils by COHERENT
D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +74
We present results of several measurements of CsI[Na] scintillation response to 3-60 keV energy nuclear recoils performed by the COHERENT collaboration using tagged neutron elastic…
Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)
Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro, F. Fischer +28
Poly Ethylene Naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial polymer plastic which is investigated as a low background, transparent, scintillating and wavelength shifting structural material.…
LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report
LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, I. Abt +261
We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one o…
Characterization of stilbene-d12 for neutron spectroscopy without time of flight
N. Gaughan, J. Zhou, F. D. Becchetti +4
We have experimentally characterized the light-output response of a deuterated trans-stilbene (stilbene-d12) crystal to quasi-monoenergetic neutrons in the 0.8 to 4.4 MeV energy ra…
Wavelength-Shifting Performance of Polyethylene Naphthalate Films in a Liquid Argon Environment
Y. Abraham, J. Asaadi, V. Basque +9
Liquid argon is commonly used as a detector medium for neutrino physics and dark matter experiments in part due to its copious scintillation light production in response to its exc…
A DO detector for flux normalization of a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source
COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +76
We report on the technical design and expected performance of a 592 kg heavy-water-Cherenkov detector to measure the absolute neutrino flux from the pion-decay-at-rest neutrino sou…
Development of a Kr source for the calibration of the CENNS-10 Liquid Argon Detector
COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +77
We report on the preparation of and calibration measurements with a Kr source for the CENNS-10 liquid argon detector. Kr atoms generated in the de…
The Radioactive Source Calibration System of the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Detector
PROSPECT Collaboration, J. Ashenfelter, A. B. Balantekin +62
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum (PROSPECT) Experiment is a reactor neutrino experiment designed to search for sterile neutrinos with a mass on the order of 1 eV/c$^2…
A Low Mass Optical Grid for the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Detector
PROSPECT Collaboration, J. Ashenfelter, A. B. Balantekin +67
PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum experiment, is a short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment designed to provide precision measurements of the U…
Lithium-loaded Liquid Scintillator Production for the PROSPECT experiment
PROSPECT Collaboration, J. Ashenfelter, A. B. Balantekin +67
This work reports the production and characterization of lithium-loaded liquid scintillator (LiLS) for the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT). Fifty-n…
Use of polyethylene naphthalate as a self-vetoing structural material
Y. Efremenko, L. Fajt, M. Febbraro +15
The discovery of scintillation in the blue regime from polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), a commonly used high-performance industrial polyester plastic, has sparked considerable inter…
The PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment
PROSPECT Collaboration, J. Ashenfelter, A. B. Balantekin +86
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, PROSPECT, is designed to make both a precise measurement of the antineutrino spectrum from a highly-enriched uranium reac…
COHERENT 2018 at the Spallation Neutron Source
D. Akimov, J. B. Albert, P. An +76
The primary goal of the COHERENT collaboration is to measure and study coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using the high-power, few-tens-of-MeV, pulsed source of…