Sep 28 – 30, 2022
Hida City Cultural Communication Center
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Study of energy scale calibration and Gd concentration monitoring using cosmogenic neutron in SK-Gd

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Hida City Cultural Communication Center

Hida City Cultural Communication Center

Poster Poster

Speaker

Shizuka Shima

Description

Super-Kamiokande is the world's largest underground water Cherenkov detector placed 1000m underground in Kamioka. The experiment aims to observe neutrinos from various sources as well as nucleon decays. In the summer of 2020, the new phase of Super-Kamiokande, SK-Gd, was started by dissolving gadolinium to pure water to about 0.01% concentration. Furthermore, in the summer of 2022, additional gadolinium was introduced, increasing its concentration from 0.01% to 0.03%. This significantly increased neutron detection efficiency, thanks to gadolinium's large thermal neutron capture cross section and following gamma-ray emission with the total energy of ~8 MeV. We are developing a new energy scale calibration method using spallation neutrons produced by cosmic-ray muons. Using spallation neutrons has advantages that they are uniformly distributed across the entire detector and that they have large statistics. In addition, we used spallation neutrons to monitor gadolinium concentration during the loading periods by measuring their capture time constant and number of neutrons captured by gadolinium. I will present the status of these studies in this poster.

Primary author

Co-authors

Yasuhiro Nakajima (ynakajim@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Masataka Shinoki (Tokyo University of Science)

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