N-16 as a calibration source for Super-Kamiokande

Authors
Blaufuss, E Guillian, G Fukuda, Y Fukuda, S Ishitsuka, M Itow, Y Kajita, T Kameda, J Kaneyuki, K Kobayashi, K Kobayashi, Y Koshio, Y Miura, M Moriyama, S Nakahata, M Nakayama, S Obayashi, Y Okada, A Okumura, K Sakurai, N Shiozawa, M Suzuki, Y Takeuchi, B Takeuchi, Y Toshito, T Totsuka, Y Yamada, S Earl, M Habig, A Kearns, E Messier, MD Scholberg, K Stone, JL Sulak, LR Walter, CW Goldhaber, M Barszczak, T Casper, D Gajewski, W Kropp, WR Mine, S Price, LR Smy, M Sobel, HW Vagins, MR Ganezer, KS Keig, WE Ellsworth, RW Tasaka, S Kibayashi, A Learned, JG Matsuno, S Takemori, D Hayato, Y Ishii, T Kobayashi, T Nakamura, K Oyama, Y Sakai, A Sakuda, M Sasaki, O Echigo, S Kohama, M Suzuki, AT Inagaki, T Nishikawa, K Haines, TJ Kim, BK Sanford, R Svoboda, R Chen, ML Goodman, JA Sullivan, GW Hill, J Jung, CK Martens, K Malek, M Mauger, C McGrew, C Sharkey, E Viren, B Yanagisawa, C Kirisawa, M Inaba, S Mitsuda, C Miyano, K Okazawa, H Saji, C Takahashi, M Takahata, M Nagashima, Y Nitta, K Takita, M Yoshida, M Kim, SB Etoh, M Gando, Y Hasegawa, T Inoue, K Ishihara, K Maruyama, T Shirai, J Suzuki, A Koshiba, M Hatakeyama, Y Ichikawa, Y Koike, M Nishijima, K Fujiyasu, H Ishino, H Morii, M Watanabe, Y Golebiewska, U Kielczewska, D Boyd, SC Stachyra, AL Wilkes, RJ Young, KK
Citation
E. Blaufuss et al., N-16 as a calibration source for Super-Kamiokande, NUCL INST A, 458(3), 2001, pp. 638-649
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Spectroscopy /Instrumentation/Analytical Sciences","Instrumentation & Measurement
Journal title
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
ISSN journal
01689002 → ACNP
Volume
458
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
638 - 649
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(20010211)458:3<638:NAACSF>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The decay of N-16 is used to cross check the absolute energy scale calibrat ion for solar neutrinos established by the electron linear accelerator (LIN AC). A deuterium-tritium neutron generator was employed to create N-16 via the (n,p) reaction on O-16 in the water of the detector. This technique is isotropic and has different systematic uncertainties than the LINAC. The re sults from this high-statistics data sample agree with the absolute energy scale of the LINAC to better than 1%. A natural source of N-16 from the cap ture of mu (-) on O-16, Which is collected as a background to the solar neu trino analysis, is also discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All right s reserved.