Remark on the studies of the muon-induced neutron background in the liquid scintillator detectors

TL;DR

This paper reviews muon-induced neutron backgrounds in underground liquid scintillator detectors, highlighting a successful simulation that matches experimental neutron yield data for the first time.

Contribution

It presents a novel simulation approach that accurately reproduces experimental neutron yields in liquid scintillator detectors caused by muons.

Findings

Simulation results agree with experimental neutron yields

First successful match between simulation and experiment for muon-induced neutrons

Supports the reliability of the proposed background modeling method

Abstract

This article gives a point of view on the studies of the muon-induced background for the underground experiments using a liquid scintillator detectors. The results obtained are in good agreement with the data, especially for the neutron yield production. This is the first time, when a study of this kind successes to get the same neutron yield as the one obtained from the experiment.