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DANSSino: a pilot version of the DANSS neutrino detector

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DANSSino is a reduced pilot version of a solid-state detector of reactor antineutrinos (to be created within the DANSS project and installed under the industrial 3 GWth reactor of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant—KNPP). Numerous tests performed at a distance of 11 m from the reactor core demonstrate operability of the chosen design and reveal the main sources of the background. In spite of its small size (20 × 20 × 100 cm3), the pilot detector turned out to be quite sensitive to reactor antineutrinos, detecting about 70 IBD events per day with the signal-to-background ratio about unity.

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  1. State Scientific Center, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, 117218, Russia

    I. Alekseev, M. Danilov, A. Kobyakin, R. Mizuk, E. Novikov, V. Rusinov, A. Starostin, D. Svirida, E. Tarkovsky & I. Tikhomirov

  2. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Moscow Region, Dubna, 141980, Russia

    V. Belov, V. Brudanin, V. Egorov, D. Filosofov, M. Fomina, Z. Hons, D. Medvedev, A. Olshevsky, S. Rozov, N. Rumyantseva, A. Salamatin, Ye. Shevchik, M. Shirchenko, Yu. Shitov, E. Yakushev, I. Zhitnikov & D. Zinatulina

  3. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region(MIPT), Dolgoprudny, 141700, Russia

    M. Danilov

  4. Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, London (ICL), UK

    Yu. Shitov

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Alekseev, I., Belov, V., Brudanin, V. et al. DANSSino: a pilot version of the DANSS neutrino detector. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 11, 473–482 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477114040050

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