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Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND

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Abe, S; Asami, S; Eizuka, M; Futagi, S; Gando, A; Gando, Y; Gima, T; Goto, A; Hachiya, T; Hata, K; Hosokawa, K; Ichimura, K; Ieki, S; Fu, Z ...
Published in: Physical Review C
May 1, 2023
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Cosmic-ray muons produce various radioisotopes when passing through material. These spallation products can be backgrounds for rare event searches such as in solar neutrino, double-β decay, and dark matter search experiments. The KamLAND-Zen experiment searches for neutrinoless double-β decay in 745 kg of xenon dissolved in liquid scintillator. The experiment includes dead-time-free electronics with a high efficiency for detecting muon-induced neutrons. The production yields of different radioisotopes are measured with a combination of delayed coincidence techniques, newly developed muon reconstruction, and xenon spallation identification methods. The observed xenon spallation products are consistent with results from the fluka and geant4 simulation codes.

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Diane M Markoff
Author Diane M Markoff Physics
Werner Tornow
Author Werner Tornow Physics

Published In

Physical Review C

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.107.054612

EISSN

2469-9993

ISSN

2469-9985

Publication Date

May 1, 2023

Volume

107

Issue

5

Related Subject Headings

  • 5106 Nuclear and plasma physics
 

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Abe, S., Asami, S., Eizuka, M., Futagi, S., Gando, A., Gando, Y., … Song, H. (2023). Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND. Physical Review C, 107(5). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.107.054612
Abe, S., S. Asami, M. Eizuka, S. Futagi, A. Gando, Y. Gando, T. Gima, et al. “Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND.” Physical Review C 107, no. 5 (May 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.107.054612.
Abe S, Asami S, Eizuka M, Futagi S, Gando A, Gando Y, et al. Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND. Physical Review C. 2023 May 1;107(5).
Abe, S., et al. “Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND.” Physical Review C, vol. 107, no. 5, May 2023. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.107.054612.
Abe S, Asami S, Eizuka M, Futagi S, Gando A, Gando Y, Gima T, Goto A, Hachiya T, Hata K, Hosokawa K, Ichimura K, Ieki S, Ikeda H, Inoue K, Ishidoshiro K, Kamei Y, Kawada N, Kishimoto Y, Koga M, Kurasawa M, Mitsui T, Miyake H, Nakahata T, Nakamura K, Nakamura R, Ozaki H, Sakai T, Shimizu I, Shirai J, Shiraishi K, Suzuki A, Suzuki Y, Takeuchi A, Tamae K, Watanabe H, Yoshida Y, Obara S, Ichikawa AK, Yoshida S, Umehara S, Fushimi K, Kotera K, Urano Y, Berger BE, Fujikawa BK, Learned JG, Maricic J, Axani SN, Fu Z, Smolsky J, Winslow LA, Efremenko Y, Karwowski HJ, Markoff DM, Tornow W, Dell’Oro S, O’Donnell T, Detwiler JA, Enomoto S, Decowski MP, Weerman KM, Grant C, Li A, Song H. Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND. Physical Review C. 2023 May 1;107(5).

Published In

Physical Review C

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.107.054612

EISSN

2469-9993

ISSN

2469-9985

Publication Date

May 1, 2023

Volume

107

Issue

5

Related Subject Headings

  • 5106 Nuclear and plasma physics