Wilson, S.T. orcid.org/0000-0002-6874-8600, Cotsford, C., Armitage, J. et al. (4 more authors) (Submitted: 2023) Remote reactor ranging via antineutrino oscillations. [Preprint - arXiv] (Submitted)
Abstract
Antineutrinos from nuclear reactors can be used for monitoring in the mid- to far-field as part of a non-proliferation toolkit. Antineutrinos are an unshieldable signal and carry information about the reactor core and the distance they travel. Using gadolinium-doped water Cherenkov detectors for this purpose has been previously proposed alongside rate-only analyses. As antineutrinos carry information about their distance of travel in their energy spectrum, the analyses can be extended to a spectral analysis to gain more knowledge about the detected core. Two complementary analyses are used to evaluate the distance between a proposed gadolinium-doped water-based liquid scintillator detector and a detected nuclear reactor. Example cases are shown for a detector in Boulby Mine, near the Boulby Underground Laboratory in the UK, and six reactor sites in the UK and France. The analyses both show strong potential to range reactors, but are limited by the detector design.
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Item Type: | Preprint |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This preprint is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | physics.ins-det; physics.ins-det; 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) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2024 09:21 |
Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2024 04:08 |
Status: | Submitted |
Identification Number: | 10.48550/arXiv.2303.16661 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210929 |