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环境中子测量中的偶然符合alpha事例修正

Accidental alpha-event correction in the measurement of environmental neutrons

作者:何汉涛(四川大学物理学院);杜强(四川大学物理学院);林兴德(四川大学物理学院);刘书魁(四川大学物理学院);唐昌建(四川大学物理学院);幸浩洋(四川大学物理学院);岳骞(清华大学工程物理系);朱敬军(四川大学物理学院)

Author:HE Han-Tao(College of Physis, Sichuan University);DU Qiang(College of Physis, Sichuan University);LIN Xing-De(College of Physis, Sichuan University);LIU Shu-Kui(College of Physis, Sichuan University);TANG Chang-Jian(College of Physis, Sichuan University);XING Hao-Yang(College of Physis, Sichuan University);YUE Qian(Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University);ZHU Jing-Jun(College of Physis, Sichuan University)

收稿日期:2018-03-07          年卷(期)页码:2019,56(4):684-688

期刊名称:四川大学学报: 自然科学版

Journal Name:Journal of Sichuan University (Natural Science Edition)

关键字:放射性原子核衰变;偶然符合;液体闪烁体;alpha粒子;快中子;地下实验室

Key words:Radioactive nuclear decay; Random coincidence; Liquid scintillator; Alpha-particle; Fast neutron; Underground laboratory

基金项目:国家自然科学基金

中文摘要

在暗物质直接探测实验中,中子是十分重要的环境本底. 利用快慢符合法,一个掺钆的液闪探测器被分别用于测量了世界最深的地下实验室—中国锦屏地下实验室的实验大厅及1 m厚聚乙烯房间内的快中子本底通量及能谱. 由于液闪无法通过信号波形区分中子与alpha事例,因此液闪中长寿命的U/Th核素衰变放出的alpha粒子是必须考虑的本底之一. 在长期平衡假设条件下,实验测得液闪内部alpha粒子的总计数率为 (0.548 ± 0.002) s-1,再通过偶然符合算法,可得到实验大厅356天总计2682个中子候选事例中,有6个偶然符合的alpha事例;聚乙烯房间173天总计44个中子候选事例中,有2个偶然符合的alpha事例. 偶然符合的alpha粒子对大厅的快中子通量测量结果影响可以忽略,而对聚乙烯房间中的通量结果约有4%的影响.

英文摘要

In the dark matter direct detection experiment, neutrons are important environmental background. In the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL), the world’s deepest underground laboratory, a gadolinium doped liquid scintillator (Gd-LS) detector was used to measure the fluxes and spectra of fast neutron background in the Hall and in a room with one meter thick polyethylene (PE) walls by fast-slow time coincident method. Liquid scintillators are incapable to discriminate neutrons and alpha-particles by their pulse shapes. Thus, the alpha-particle background from the long-lived U/Th nuclides inside the liquid scintillator has to be taken into account. Assuming secular equilibrium, the total rate of the alpha-decays in the detector was measured to be (0.548 ± 0.002) s-1. Then in the Hall, the number of random coincident alpha-events was determined to be 6 out of 2682 neutron candidates based on 356 days of data. And for the PE room, this value is 2 out of 44 neutron candidates with 173 days of data. The influence of the random coincident alpha-particles are negligible for the result of fast neutron flux in the Hall, but have around 4% for the measurement in the PE room.

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