The RED-100 experiment
D.Yu. Akimov, I.S. Alexandrov, R.R. Alyev, V.A. Belov, A.I., Bolozdynya, A.V. Etenko, A.V. Galavanov, E.M. Glagovsky, Y.V. Gusakov, A.V., Khromov, S.M. Kiselev, A.M. Konovalov, V.N. Kornoukhov, A.G. Kovalenko, E.S., Kozlova, A.V. Kumpan, A.V. Lukyashin, A.V. Pinchuk
TL;DR
The RED-100 experiment deployed a two-phase xenon detector near a nuclear reactor to investigate the detection of reactor antineutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, assessing background and operational performance.
Contribution
This work demonstrates the deployment and operation of the RED-100 detector at a nuclear power plant for neutrino detection, providing insights into background levels and detector performance.
Findings
No correlation between background and reactor state
Successful operation of the detector at a nuclear power plant
Data collected during both reactor ON and OFF periods
Abstract
The RED-100 two-phase xenon emission detector has been deployed at 19-m distance from the reactor core of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in 2021 - 2022 for investigation of the possibility to observe reactor antineutrinos using the effect of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE{\nu}NS). The performance of the main systems of the RED-100 setup at operating nuclear power plant is described. There is no correlation of the radioactive background at the experimental setup site with ON and OFF states of the reactor. The data taking run was carried out at the beginning of the year 2022 and covered both the reactor OFF and ON periods.
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Taxonomy
TopicsNuclear reactor physics and engineering