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Study of polysterene based scintillator ageing in the DANSS experiment
DANSS Collaboration, I. Alekseev, V. Belov +30
DANSS is a spectrometer of reactor antineutrino based on plastic scintillator. The sensitive volume of the detector is made of 2500 polystyrene based scintillator plates with wavel…
Application of the Duperier method to the analysis of the cosmic muon flux dependence on the meteorological parameters, based on the DANSS detector data
I. Alekseev, V. Belov, M. Danilov +23
The detector DANSS is located under n industrial nuclear reactor at Kalininskaya Nuclear Power Plant. This location provides ~ 50 m.w.e. reduction of the cosmic muon flux in the ve…
Optimized scintillation strip design for the DANSS upgrade
DANSS Collaboration, I. Alekseev, V. Belov +32
DANSS is a one cubic meter plastic scintillator detector with a primary goal of the sterile neutrino searches at a commercial nuclear reactor. Due to its highly advantageous locati…
Observation of the temperature and barometric effects on the cosmic muon flux by the DANSS detector
DANSS Collaboration, I. Alekseev, V. Belov +26
The DANSS detector is located directly below a commercial reactor core at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. Such a position provides an overburden about 50 m.w.e. in vertical direct…
Experimental study of ionization yield of liquid xenon for electron recoils in the energy range 2.8 - 80 keV
D. Yu. Akimov, V. V. Afanasyev, I. S. Alexandrov +23
We present the results of the first experimental study of ionization yield of electron recoils with energies below 100 keV produced in liquid xenon by the isotopes: 37Ar, 83mKr, 24…
Registration of reactor neutrinos with the highly segmented plastic scintillator detector DANSSino
V. Belov, V. Brudanin, M. Danilov +8
DANSSino is a simplified pilot version of a solid-state detector of reactor antineutrino (it is being created within the DANSS project and will be installed close to an industrial…
DANSSino: a pilot version of the DANSS neutrino detector
I. Alekseev, V. Belov, V. Brudanin +24
DANSSino is a reduced pilot version of a solid-state detector of reactor antineutrinos (to be created within the DANSS project and installed under the industrial 3 GW(th) reactor o…
Measurement and simulation of the muon-induced neutron yield in lead
L. Reichhart, A. Lindote, D. Yu. Akimov +36
A measurement is presented of the neutron production rate in lead by high energy cosmic-ray muons at a depth of 2850 m water equivalent (w.e.) and a mean muon energy of 260 GeV. Th…
Perspectives to measure neutrino-nuclear neutral current coherent scattering with two-phase emission detector
RED Collaboration, D. Yu. Akimov, I. S. Alexandrov +43
We propose to detect and to study neutrino neutral current coherent scattering off atomic nuclei with a two-phase emission detector using liquid xenon as a working medium. Expected…
Position Reconstruction in a Dual Phase Xenon Scintillation Detector
V. N. Solovov, V. A. Belov, D. Yu. Akimov +33
We studied the application of statistical reconstruction algorithms, namely maximum likelihood and least squares methods, to the problem of event reconstruction in a dual phase liq…
Performance data from the ZEPLIN-III second science run
P. Majewski, V. N. Solovov, D. Yu. Akimov +32
ZEPLIN-III is a two-phase xenon direct dark matter experiment located at the Boulby Mine (UK). After its first science run in 2008 it was upgraded with: an array of low background…
Single electron emission in two-phase xenon with application to the detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering
E. Santos, B. Edwards, V. Chepel +34
We present an experimental study of single electron emission in ZEPLIN-III, a two-phase xenon experiment built to search for dark matter WIMPs, and discuss applications enabled by…
Nuclear recoil scintillation and ionisation yields in liquid xenon from ZEPLIN-III data
M. Horn, V. A. Belov, D. Yu. Akimov +33
Scintillation and ionisation yields for nuclear recoils in liquid xenon above 10 keVnr (nuclear recoil energy) are deduced from data acquired using broadband Am-Be neutron sources.…
Radioactivity Backgrounds in ZEPLIN-III
H. M. Araujo, D. Yu. Akimov, E. J. Barnes +32
We examine electron and nuclear recoil backgrounds from radioactivity in the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment at Boulby. The rate of low-energy electron recoils in the liquid xeno…
Calibration of Photomultiplier Arrays
F. Neves, V. Chepel, D. Yu. Akimov +31
A method is described that allows calibration and assessment of the linearity of response of an array of photomultiplier tubes. The method does not require knowledge of the photomu…