Antineutrino flux from the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant

TL;DR

This paper calculates the antineutrino flux from Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant using reactor simulations and estimates detection rates in a plastic scintillator detector placed nearby.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed flux calculation based on reactor fission spectra and provides an estimate of detection rates for a specific detector setup.

Findings

Estimated antineutrino flux at 100 m from reactors

Predicted event rate in a 1-ton scintillator detector

Methodology combining reactor simulation with flux estimation

Abstract

We present a calculation of the antineutrino flux produced by the reactors at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant in M\'exico, based on the antineutrino spectra produced in the decay chains of the fission fragments of the main isotopes in the reactor core, and their fission rates, that have been calculated using the DRAGON simulation code. We also present an estimate of the number of expected events in a detector made of plastic scintillator with a mass of 1 ton, at 100 m from the reactor cores.