# Nuclear Reactor Monitoring with Gadolinium-Loaded Plastic Scintillator Modules

## TL;DR

This paper presents a simulation-based design of a gadolinium-loaded segmented plastic scintillator detector for nuclear reactor monitoring via antineutrinos, introducing a novel multivariate analysis for cosmic background suppression.

## Contribution

It introduces the first multivariate analysis technique for cosmic background suppression in a gadolinium-loaded plastic scintillator antineutrino detector.

## Key findings

- Effective background suppression demonstrated
- Optimized detector design for reactor monitoring
- Potential for improved antineutrino detection accuracy

## Abstract

In this study, simulation-based design and optimization studies of a gadolinium loaded segmented plastic scintillator detector are presented for monitoring applications of nuclear reactors in Turkey using antineutrinos. For the first time in the literature, a multivariate analysis technique is introduced to suppress cosmic background for such a reactor antineutrino detector.