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Radioactivity control strategy for the JUNO detector
Document Type
article
Author
The JUNO collaborationAngel AbuslemeThomas AdamShakeel AhmadRizwan AhmedSebastiano AielloMuhammad AkramFengpeng AnQi AnGiuseppe AndronicoNikolay AnfimovVito AntonelliTatiana AntoshkinaBurin AsavapibhopJoão Pedro Athayde Marcondes de AndréDidier AugusteAndrej BabicWander BaldiniAndrea BarresiDavide BasilicoEric BaussanMarco BellatoAntonio BergnoliThilo BirkenfeldSylvie BlinDavid BlumSimon BlythAnastasia BolshakovaMathieu BongrandClément BordereauDominique BretonAugusto BrigattiRiccardo BrugneraRiccardo BrunoAntonio BudanoMario BuscemiJose BustoIlya ButorovAnatael CabreraHao CaiXiao CaiYanke CaiZhiyan CaiAntonio CammiAgustin CampenyChuanya CaoGuofu CaoJun CaoRossella CarusoCédric CernaJinfan ChangYun ChangPingping ChenPo-An ChenShaomin ChenXurong ChenYi-Wen ChenYixue ChenYu ChenZhang ChenJie ChengYaping ChengAlexey ChetverikovDavide ChiesaPietro ChimentiArtem ChukanovGérard ClaverieCatia ClementiBarbara ClerbauxSelma Conforti Di LorenzoDaniele CortiOliviero CremonesiFlavio Dal CorsoOlivia DalagerChristophe De La TailleJiawei DengZhi DengZiyan DengWilfried DepneringMarco DiazXuefeng DingYayun DingBayu DirgantaraSergey DmitrievskyTadeas DohnalDmitry DolzhikovGeorgy DonchenkoJianmeng DongEvgeny DoroshkevichMarcos DracosFrédéric DruilloleShuxian DuStefano DusiniMartin DvorakTimo EnqvistHeike EnzmannAndrea FabbriLukas FajtDonghua FanLei FanJian FangWenxing FangMarco FargettaDmitry FedoseevVladko FeketeLi-Cheng FengQichun FengRichard FordAndrey FormozovAmélie FournierHaonan GanFeng GaoAlberto GarfagniniMarco GiammarchiAgnese GiazNunzio GiudiceMaxim GoncharGuanghua GongHui GongYuri GornushkinAlexandre GöttelMarco GrassiChristian GrewingVasily GromovMinghao GuXiaofei GuYu GuMengyun GuanNunzio GuardoneMaria GulCong GuoJingyuan GuoWanlei GuoXinheng GuoYuhang GuoPaul HackspacherCaren HagnerRan HanYang HanMuhammad Sohaib HassanMiao HeWei HeTobias HeinzPatrick HellmuthYuekun HengRafael HerreraYuenKeung HorShaojing HouYee HsiungBei-Zhen HuHang HuJianrun HuJun HuShouyang HuTao HuZhuojun HuChunhao HuangGuihong HuangHanxiong HuangWenhao HuangXin HuangXingtao HuangYongbo HuangJiaqi HuiLei HuoWenju HuoCédric HussSafeer HussainAra IoannisianRoberto IsocrateBeatrice JelminiKuo-Lun JenIgnacio JeriaXiaolu JiXingzhao JiHuihui JiaJunji JiaSiyu JianDi JiangXiaoshan JiangRuyi JinXiaoping JingCécile JolletJari JoutsenvaaraSirichok JungthawanLeonidas KalousisPhilipp KampmannLi KangRebin KaraparambilNarine KazarianWaseem KhanKhanchai KhosonthongkeeDenis KorablevKonstantin KouzakovAlexey KrasnoperovAndre KruthNikolay KutovskiyPasi KuusiniemiTobias LachenmaierCecilia LandiniSébastien LeblancVictor LebrinFrederic LefevreRuiting LeiRupert LeitnerJason LeungDemin LiFei LiFule LiHaitao LiHuiling LiJiaqi LiMengzhao LiMin LiNan LiQingjiang LiRuhui LiShanfeng LiTao LiWeidong LiWeiguo LiXiaomei LiXiaonan LiXinglong LiYi LiYufeng LiZhaohan LiZhibing LiZiyuan LiHao LiangJiajun LiaoDaniel LiebauAyut LimphiratSukit LimpijumnongGuey-Lin LinShengxin LinTao LinJiajie LingIvano LippiFang LiuHaidong LiuHongbang LiuHongjuan LiuHongtao LiuHui LiuJianglai LiuJinchang LiuMin LiuQian LiuQin LiuRunxuan LiuShuangyu LiuShubin LiuShulin LiuXiaowei LiuXiwen LiuYan LiuYunzhe LiuAlexey LokhovPaolo LombardiClaudio LombardoKai LooChuan LuHaoqi LuJingbin LuJunguang LuShuxiang LuXiaoxu LuBayarto LubsandorzhievSultim LubsandorzhievLivia LudhovaFengjiao LuoGuang LuoPengwei LuoShu LuoWuming LuoVladimir LyashukBangzheng MaQiumei MaSi MaXiaoyan MaXubo MaJihane MaalmiYury MalyshkinFabio MantovaniFrancesco ManzaliXin MaoYajun MaoStefano M. 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Source
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2021, Iss 11, Pp 1-39 (2021)
Subject
Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments)
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
QC770-798
Language
English
ISSN
1029-8479
Abstract
Abstract JUNO is a massive liquid scintillator detector with a primary scientific goal of determining the neutrino mass ordering by studying the oscillated anti-neutrino flux coming from two nuclear power plants at 53 km distance. The expected signal anti-neutrino interaction rate is only 60 counts per day (cpd), therefore a careful control of the background sources due to radioactivity is critical. In particular, natural radioactivity present in all materials and in the environment represents a serious issue that could impair the sensitivity of the experiment if appropriate countermeasures were not foreseen. In this paper we discuss the background reduction strategies undertaken by the JUNO collaboration to reduce at minimum the impact of natural radioactivity. We describe our efforts for an optimized experimental design, a careful material screening and accurate detector production handling, and a constant control of the expected results through a meticulous Monte Carlo simulation program. We show that all these actions should allow us to keep the background count rate safely below the target value of 10 Hz (i.e. ∼1 cpd accidental background) in the default fiducial volume, above an energy threshold of 0.7 MeV.