Jun 14 – 17, 2022
South Dakota Mines
US/Mountain timezone

Background measurements for Jinping Neutrino 1-t prototype at CJPL

Jun 16, 2022, 8:30 AM
15m
EEP 252 (South Dakota Mines)

EEP 252

South Dakota Mines

501 E. Saint Joseph St. Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
Oral Presentation Experiment Backgrounds, Models, Simulations LRT 2022 - presentations

Speaker

Yiyang Wu (Tsinghua University)

Description

In 2017-2020, Jinping Neutrino 1-t prototype has detected numerous MeV radioactive background events, 343 high energy muon events and muon induced neutrons. By Bi-Po coincidence, the U238 contamination of liquid scintillator (LS) is measured as $(6.98 \pm 0.73) \times 10−13$ g/g, and Th232 upperlimit is $3.7 \times 10−13$ g/g (95% C.L., preliminary). On PMT glass, K40 contamination is $(5.73 \pm 0.79stat. \pm 1.49sys. ) \times 10−8$ g/g and Tl208 event rate is $(3.86 \pm 0.26stat. \pm 0.85sys. ) \times 10−3$ Bq/g, indicating $(2.64 \pm 0.18stat. \pm 0.58sys. ) \times 10−6 g/g$ Th232. The radioactivity of LS will be further suppressed after the distillation system is online. The muon flux is $(3.61 \pm 0.19stat. \pm 0.10sys.) \times 10−10 \mathrm{cm}^{−2}\mathrm{s}^{-1}$ with an average energy of 340 GeV, and its neutron yield is $(3.44 \pm 1.86stat. \pm 0.76syst.) \times 10−4μ−1g−1cm2$. Those results indicates that CJPL is an ideal place for low background experiments. We are making steady progresses on lowering radioactive isotopes of detector materials.

Primary author

Yiyang Wu (Tsinghua University)

Presentation materials