The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment

The DarkSide Collaboration

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/P03016

The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment

The DarkSide Collaboration

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Nuclear recoil events produced by neutron scatters form one of the most important classes of background in WIMP direct detection experiments, as they may produce nuclear recoils that look exactly like WIMP interactions. In DarkSide-50, we both actively suppress and measure the rate of neutron-induced background events using our neutron veto, composed of a boron-loaded liquid scintillator detector within a water Cherenkov detector. This paper is devoted to the description of the neutron veto system of DarkSide-50, including the detector structure, the fundamentals of event reconstruction and data analysis, and basic performance parameters.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	P03016
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	11
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/P03016
State	Published - Mar 16 2016

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Mathematical Physics
Instrumentation

Keywords

Cherenkov and transition radiation
Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.)
Neutron detectors (cold, thermal, fast neutrons)
Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

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The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment

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