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Title: A high precision calibration of the nonlinear energy response at Daya Bay

Journal Article · · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of High Energy Physics (IHEP)
  2. East China Univ. of Science and Technology, Shanghai (China)
  3. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  4. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  5. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  6. National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
  7. Nanjing Univ. (China)
  8. National United Univ., Miao-Li (Taiwan)
  9. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
  10. Shenzhen Univ. (China); Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou, (China)
  11. North China Electric Power Univ., Beijing (China)
  12. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou, (China)
  13. Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (China)
  14. Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna (Russian Federation)
  15. Siena College, Loudonville, NY (United States)
  16. Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
  17. Charles Univ., Prague (Czech Republic)
  18. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  19. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  20. Beijing Normal Univ. (China)
  21. Xi’an Jiaotong Univ. (China)
  22. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Bronx Community College, NY (United States)
  23. Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
  24. China Inst. of Atomic Energy, Beijing (China)
  25. Shandong Univ., Jinan (China)
  26. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
  27. National Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
  28. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)
  29. Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  30. Dongguan Univ. of Technology, (China)
  31. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  32. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  33. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China); Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  34. Univ. of Hong Kong (China)
  35. Nankai Univ., Tianjin (China)
  36. Illinois Inst. of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
  37. Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., (China)
  38. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  39. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)
  40. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (Chile)
  41. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (Chile); Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  42. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  43. China General Nuclear Power Group, Shenzhen (China)
  44. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou, (China); College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)
  45. National Univ. of Defense Technology, Changsha (China)
  46. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  47. Chongqing Univ. (China)
  48. Dongguan Univ. of Technology (China)
  49. Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China)
  50. Dongguan Univ. (China)
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A high precision calibration of the nonlinearity in the energy response of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment’s antineutrino detectors is observed. The energy nonlinearity originates from the particle-dependent light yield of the scintillator and charge-dependent electronics response. The nonlinearity model is constrained by γ calibration points from deployed and naturally occurring radioactive sources, the β spectrum from 12B decays, and a direct measurement of the electronics nonlinearity with a new flash analog-to-digital converter readout system. With this beind said, less than 0.5% uncertainty in the energy nonlinearity calibration is achieved for positrons of kinetic energies greater than 1 MeV.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; AC02-05CH11231; SC0008347
OSTI ID:
1543393
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1529637; OSTI ID: 1581369; OSTI ID: 1595056
Report Number(s):
BNL-211847-2019-JAAM
Journal Information:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 940, Issue C; ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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