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Thermal neutron background measurement in CJPL T.C. Huang*, H. Gong Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University * htc08@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn 5th China-Korea Workshop on Dark Matter Search and Double Beta Decay 2011.9.22 YangYang Outline Experiment setup Preliminary results Future work Measurement of thermal neutrons Traditional 3He gas proportional counter without moderator Main background : α particle emission from the counter material Thermal neutron measurement at LSM Zdzis?aw Debicki et al. 3He gas counters L=860mm Ф=31mm stainless steel Prototypical 3He gas counter for CJPL Ф=1 inch, L=1 m Filling gas: 3He(4 atm) + Ar(2 atm) Wall material: oxygen-free copper (to reduce the α particle emission) Resistive anode wire: position-sensitive (to discriminate the signals near the ends) Readout electronics 80MHz, 14bit ADC CJPL thermal neutron detection system Waveform record VLmax VRmax Amplitude: Vpeak = VLmax + VRmax neutron q1 q2 Amp Amp VL VR x Position: x = VRmax/(Vlmax + VRmax)*L measured signal Timestamp recorded! Amplitude spectrum obtained with AmBe source ROI 191kev 573kev 764kev 540-810 kev Working high voltage: 1300V FWHM ~20%, need to be improved! Experiment setup in CJPL 1 2 Position 1 : second floor of the hall Position 2 : inside the PE-shielding room, near the wall System was setup in July 2011 Measurement at P1 Internal α preliminary ~ 8 days data α background extrapolated from 1.2MeV-2.5MeV Measurement at P2 preliminary ~ 35 days no obvious thermal neutron counts Summary Preliminary result It’s feasible to use in the hall Background is still too high when used in the PE-shielding room Next step Obtain long-time data Further analysis of the quality of the data Improvement on detector Your critique/questions please! * We know that in underground lab like CJPL, neutrons are particular important background source. 为了增加灵敏度，几个探测器连在一起；为了减小a本底，涂了一层teflon。国内没有如此技术 * 位置灵敏原因：1是端材料不是无氧铜，可能本底较高；2是我们曾经测到高压线以及接插件放电现象 * Americium-beryllium,130