Collaboration, C., Prihtiadi, H., Adhikari, G. et al. (49 more authors) (2018) Muon detector for the COSINE-100 experiment. Journal of Instrumentation, 13 (02). T02007. ISSN 1748-0221
Abstract
The COSINE-100 dark matter search experiment has started taking physics data with the goal of performing an independent measurement of the annual modulation signal observed by DAMA/LIBRA. A muon detector was constructed by using plastic scintillator panels in the outermost layer of the shield surrounding the COSINE-100 detector. It detects cosmic ray muons in order to understand the impact of the muon annual modulation on dark matter analysis. Assembly and initial performance tests of each module have been performed at a ground laboratory. The installation of the detector in the Yangyang Underground Laboratory (Y2L) was completed in the summer of 2016. Using three months of data, the muon underground flux was measured to be 328 ± 1(stat.)± 10(syst.) muons/m2/day. In this report, the assembly of the muon detector and the results from the analysis are presented.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Instrumentation . Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | physics.ins-det; physics.ins-det; astro-ph.IM; hep-ex |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Science and Technology Facilities Council ST/N000277/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Dec 2017 13:48 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2020 13:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1748-0221/13/02/T02007 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:125214 |