Gadolinium study for a water Cherenkov detector

Remote Monitoring of Reactors: The Watchman Project In 2001, Bernstein, West and Gupta [i] described a possible campaign to monitor nuclear fission reactions over large distances using arrays of Super-Kamiokande (Super-

In 2001, Bernstein, West and Gupta [i] described a possible campaign to monitor nuclear fission reactions over large distances using arrays of Super-Kamiokande (SuperK) type water Cherenkov detectors, modified to include neutron-capture elements such as gadolinium. This modification would allow sensitivity to reactor and other low energy antineutrinos through the inverse beta decay interaction....

Callibration of a homemade 4-fold Water Cherenkov Detector array, by detection of EAS events

Remote detection of undeclared nuclear reactors using the WATCHMAN detector

Remote detection of undeclared nuclear reactors remains one of the key goals concerning global nuclear security. To meet this goal the WATCHMAN collaboration has proposed the construction of a water based antineutrino detector, sited 13 to 25 kilometres from a nuclear reactor complex. Antineutrinos from the reactor interact in the water of the detector via an inverse beta decay interaction resu...

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of a Gadolinium-Water Neutron Detector for Cosmogenic Neutron Flux Measurements by

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of a Gadolinium-Water Neutron Detector for Cosmogenic Neutron Flux Measurements by Robert K. Lanza, Jr. Bachelors of Science in Physics University of California, Santa Barbara Harry N. Nelson, Advisor This work describes experimental and theoretical aspects of calibrations performed on a gadolinium/water neutron detector designed to measure the cosmogenic ne...

Supernova pointing with low- and high-energy neutrino detectors

A future galactic SN can be located several hours before the optical explosion through the MeV-neutrino burst, exploiting the directionality of n-e scattering in a water Cherenkov detector such as Super-Kamiokande. We study the statistical efficiency of different methods for extracting the SN direction and identify a simple approach that is nearly optimal, yet independent of the exact SN neutri...