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Assembly and Installation of the Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors
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article
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Band, HR; Brown, RL; Carr, R; Chen, XC; Chen, XH; Cherwinka, JJ; Chu, MC; Draeger, E; Dwyer, DA; Edwards, WR; Gill, R; Goett, J; Greenler, LS; Gu, WQ; He, WS; Heeger, KM; Heng, YK; Hinrichs, P; Ho, TH; Hoff, M; Hsiung, YB; Jin, Y; Kang, L; Kettell, SH; Kramer, M; Kwan, KK; Kwok, MW; Lewis, CA; Li, GS; Li, N; Li, SF; Li, XN; Lin, CJ; Littlejohn, BR; Liu, JL; Luk, KB; Luo, XL; Y, X; McFarlane, MC; McKeown, RD; Nakajima, Y; Ochoa-Ricoux, JP; Pagac, A; Qian, X; Seilhan, B; Shih, K; Steiner, H; Tang, X; Themann, H; Tsang, KV; Tsang, RHM; Virostek, S; Wang, L; Wang, W; Wang, ZM; Webber, DM; Wei, YD; Wen, LJ; Wenman, DL; Wilhelmi, J; Wingert, M; Wise, T; Wong, HLH; Wu, FF; Xiao, Q; Yang, L; Zhang, ZJ; Zhong, WL; Zhuang, HL
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Journal of Instrumentation. 8(11)
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Abstract
The Daya Bay reactor antineutrino experiment is designed to make a precision measurement of the neutrino mixing angle θ13, and recently made the definitive discovery of its non-zero value. It utilizes a set of eight, functionally identical antineutrino detectors to measure the reactor flux and spectrum at baselines of ∼ 300-2000 m from the Daya Bay and Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plants. The Daya Bay antineutrino detectors were built in an above-ground facility and deployed side-by-side at three underground experimental sites near and far from the nuclear reactors. This configuration allows the experiment to make a precision measurement of reactor antineutrino disappearance over km-long baselines and reduces relative systematic uncertainties between detectors and nuclear reactors. This paper describes the assembly and installation of the Daya Bay antineutrino detectors. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl.