| Issue |
E3S Web of Conferences
Volume 4, 2014
i-DUST 2014 – Inter-Disciplinary Underground Science & Technology
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| Article Number | 03003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | i-Dust 2012 – Apt (France) – May 9–11, 2012 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20140403003 | |
| Published online | 22 December 2014 | |
Neutron background estimates in GESA
1 Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, E.N. 10 (km 139.7), 2695-066 Bobadela, Portugal
2 Centro de Física Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal
3 Department of Physics, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
The SIMPLE project looks for nuclear recoil events generated by rare dark matter scattering interactions. Nuclear recoils are also produced by more prevalent cosmogenic neutron interactions. While the rock overburden shields against (μ,n) neutrons to below 10−8 cm−2 s−1, it itself contributes via radio-impurities. Additional shielding of these is similar, both suppressing and contributing neutrons. We report on the Monte Carlo (MCNP) estimation of the on-detector neutron backgrounds for the SIMPLE experiment located in the GESA facility of the Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit, and its use in defining additional shielding for measurements which have led to a reduction in the extrinsic neutron background to ∼ 5 × 10−3 evts/kgd. The calculated event rate induced by the neutron background is ∼ 0,3 evts/kgd, with a dominant contribution from the detector container.
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