TY - JOUR
T1 - What is a breakdown of continuous component hidden under 4.4-MeV gamma-ray peak from the AmBe source?
AU - Wada, Kohei
AU - Minamino, Akihiro
AU - Ito, Hiroshi
AU - Ommura, Yuga
AU - Ishitsuka, Masaki
AU - Yano, Takatomi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/2/21
Y1 - 2022/2/21
N2 - Americium-Beryllium (AmBe) is a typical source to be use for a calibration of neutron detection efficiency in underground astroparticle physics experiments. It has been considered to emit a neutron and a 4.4 MeV gamma ray simultaneously, which allows us to select events with a neutron by tagging the 4.4 MeV gamma-ray signal. This time, we focus on the component of high energy tail above 4.4 MeV peak in a deposited energy distribution, under the measurement with inorganic scintillators. In neutron tagging technique with AmBe surrounded by BGO for gamma tagging, there is a possibility of underestimating the tagging efficiency when there are neutrons stopped at BGO. We aim to understand the breakdown of component of the high energy tail from AmBe to contribute reduction of a systematic uncertainty related to the neutron detection efficiency for the astroparticle physics. We will present a result of measurements for neutrons and gamma rays using NaI(Tl) and liquid scintillation detectors.
AB - Americium-Beryllium (AmBe) is a typical source to be use for a calibration of neutron detection efficiency in underground astroparticle physics experiments. It has been considered to emit a neutron and a 4.4 MeV gamma ray simultaneously, which allows us to select events with a neutron by tagging the 4.4 MeV gamma-ray signal. This time, we focus on the component of high energy tail above 4.4 MeV peak in a deposited energy distribution, under the measurement with inorganic scintillators. In neutron tagging technique with AmBe surrounded by BGO for gamma tagging, there is a possibility of underestimating the tagging efficiency when there are neutrons stopped at BGO. We aim to understand the breakdown of component of the high energy tail from AmBe to contribute reduction of a systematic uncertainty related to the neutron detection efficiency for the astroparticle physics. We will present a result of measurements for neutrons and gamma rays using NaI(Tl) and liquid scintillation detectors.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/2156/1/012209
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/2156/1/012209
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85131899934
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 2156
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012209
T2 - 17th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2021
Y2 - 26 August 2021 through 3 September 2021
ER -