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A prototype reactor-antineutrino detector based on Li-doped pulse-shaping-discriminating plastic scintillator
O. Benevides Rodrigues, E. P. Bernard, N. S. Bowden +26
An aboveground 60-kg reactor-antineutrino detector prototype, comprised of a 2-dimensional array of 36 Li-doped pulse shape sensitive plastic scintillator bars, is described.…
Reactor Antineutrino Directionality Measurement with the PROSPECT-I Detector
M. Andriamirado, B. Balantekin, C. D. Bass +46
The PROSPECT-I detector has several features that enable measurement of the direction of a compact neutrino source. In this paper, a detailed report on the directional measurements…
Final Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR
M. Andriamirado, B. Balantekin, C. D. Bass +44
The PROSPECT experiment is designed to perform precise searches for antineutrino disappearance at short distances (7 - 9~m) from compact nuclear reactor cores. This Letter reports…
Performance of large-scale 6Li-doped pulse-shape discriminating plastic scintillators
C. Roca, N. S. Bowden, L. Carman +11
A Li-doped plastic scintillator with pulse-shape discrimination capabilities, commercially identified as EJ-299-50, has been developed and produced at the kilogram-scale. A tot…
Li-loaded liquid scintillators produced by direct dissolution of compounds in diisopropylnaphthalene (DIPN)
N. P. Zaitseva, M. L. Carman, M. J. Ford +6
The paper describes preparation of Li-loaded liquid scintillators by methods involving direct dissolution of Li salts in the commercial diisopropylnaphthalene (DIPN) solven…
Synthesis and processing of lithium-loaded plastic scintillators on the kilogram scale
Michael J. Ford, Elisabeth Aigeldinger, Felicia Sutanto +7
Plastic scintillators that can discriminate between gamma rays, fast neutrons, and thermal neutrons were synthesized and characterized while considering the balance between process…
Final Measurement of the U235 Antineutrino Energy Spectrum with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR
M. Adriamirado, A. B. Balantekin, C. D. Bass +61
This Letter reports one of the most precise measurements to date of the antineutrino spectrum from a purely U235-fueled reactor, made with the final dataset from the PROSPECT-I det…
Calibration strategy of the PROSPECT-II detector with external and intrinsic sources
M. Andriamirado, A. B. Balantekin, C. D. Bass +58
This paper presents an energy calibration scheme for an upgraded reactor antineutrino detector for the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT). The PROSPEC…
Exclusion and Verification of Remote Nuclear Reactors with a 1-Kiloton Gd-Doped Water Detector
O. A. Akindele, A. Bernstein, M. Bergevin +4
To date, antineutrino experiments built for the purpose of demonstrating a nonproliferation capability have typically employed organic scintillators, were situated as close to the…
Production and suppression of delayed light in NaI
F. Sutanto, J. Xu, S. Pereverzev +1
We investigate a hypothesis that energy accumulation and the subsequent release in NaI(Tl) may lead to pulse-like events in the few-keV energy regime, a phenomenon suggested by the…
A Call to Arms Control: Synergies between Nonproliferation Applications of Neutrino Detectors and Large-Scale Fundamental Neutrino Physics Experiments
T. Akindele, T. Anderson, E. Anderssen +162
The High Energy Physics community can benefit from a natural synergy in research activities into next-generation large-scale water and scintillator neutrino detectors, now being st…
White Paper on Light Sterile Neutrino Searches and Related Phenomenology
M. A. Acero, C. A. Argüelles, M. Hostert +169
This white paper provides a comprehensive review of our present understanding of experimental neutrino anomalies that remain unresolved, charting the progress achieved over the las…
Evaluation of a Positron-Emission-Tomography-based SiPM readout for Compact Segmented Neutron Imagers
Viacheslav A. Li, Felicia Sutanto, Timothy M. Classen +3
Gamma-ray emission from special nuclear material (SNM) is relatively easy to shield from detection using modest amounts of high-Z material. In contrast, fast-neutrons are much more…
Physics Opportunities with PROSPECT-II
M. Andriamirado, A. B. Balantekin, C. D. Bass +61
The PROSPECT experiment has substantially addressed the original 'Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly' by performing a high-resolution spectrum measurement from an enriched compact reacto…
SANDD: A directional antineutrino detector with segmented 6Li-doped pulse-shape-sensitive plastic scintillator
F. Sutanto, T. M. Classen, S. A. Dazeley +6
We present a characterization of a small (9-liter) and mobile 0.1% 6Li-doped pulse-shape-sensitive plastic scintillator antineutrino detector called SANDD (Segmented AntiNeutrino D…
Measurement of Muon-induced High-energy Neutrons from Rock in an Underground Gd-doped Water Detector
F. Sutanto, O. A. Akindele, M. Askins +9
We present a measurement of the rate of correlated neutron captures in the WATCHBOY detector, deployed at a depth of approximately 390 meters water equivalent (m.w.e.) in the Kimba…
Characterization of the C(p,p')C Reaction (E=19.530 MeV) for Active Interrogation
J. Nattress, F. Sutanto, P. -W. Fang +7
Passive detection of special nuclear material (SNM) is challenging due to its inherently low rate of spontaneous emission of penetrating radiation, the relative ease of shielding,…
Directionally Accelerated Detection of an Unknown Second Reactor with Antineutrinos for Mid-Field Nonproliferation Monitoring
D. L. Danielson, O. A. Akindele, M. Askins +67
When monitoring a reactor site for nuclear nonproliferation purposes, the presence of an unknown or hidden nuclear reactor could be obscured by the activities of a known reactor of…
A prototype for SANDD: A highly-segmented pulse-shape-sensitive plastic scintillator detector incorporating silicon photomultiplier arrays
Viacheslav A. Li, Timothy M. Classen, Steven A. Dazeley +5
We report the first clear observation of neutron/gamma-ray pulse-shape sensitivity of a fully-instrumented 8 8 array of plastic scintillator segments coupled to two 5 cm $…