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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
2024-11-23 17:49 |
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2017 Meeting
Section: Nuclear and Elementary Particles Physics
Title:
Phenomenological aspects of the activation of argon due to neutrons and muons from cosmic rays
Authors:
Ionel LAZANU, Ana CHIRIACESCU, Mihaela PARVU, Alexandru JIPA, Oana RISTEA, Marius CALIN
Affiliation:
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, POBox MG-11, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
E-mail
ionel.lazanu@g.unibuc.ro
Keywords:
argon, cosmic rays, activation
Abstract:
From all noble gases only argon is used as target and detector for neutrino experiments up to giant dimension. It has excellent properties of scintillations and ionization, is homogeneous, compact and self-shielding and is able to operate as TPC-LAr in single but also in double phase technology. We investigated phenomenological aspects of the activation of argon directly due to muons from cosmic rays, in particular nuclear capture, or due to neutrons both from cosmic rays and produced by muons. Detailed discussions on muon induced neutron yield, muon capture as well as a review of existing experimental data are presented.
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