June 22, 2020 to July 2, 2020
US/Central timezone

Radioactive Cleanliness Control for the JUNO Experiment

Not scheduled
10m

Speaker

Prof. Li Zhou (Institute of High Energy Physics, China)

Description

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy, measure oscillation parameters and investigate solar neutrinos, supernova neutrinos and geoneutrinos, etc. The JUNO central detector (CD) contains 20 ktons of liquid scintillator with an acrylic sphere (35.4m inner diameter). Our baseline requirement of surface dusts from LS related systems is less than $0.1 mg/m^2$ for reactor neutrino analysis. In order to achieve this goal, four methods, including conductivity monitoring, light absorption spectra comparison, suspension particulate counting and ICP-MS measurement, are applied to monitor cleanliness levels. Multiple cleaning protocols are developed and verified to clean surface of acrylic, stainless steel and Teflon. The poster presents details of evaluation methods and cleaning protocols. The total signals rate contribution from surface cleanliness is less than 0.32 Hz in the fiducial volume (17.2m radius).

Mini-abstract

Radioactive cleanliness control and evaluation methods for the JUNO experiment

Experiment/Collaboration JUNO

Primary authors

Prof. Li Zhou (Institute of High Energy Physics, China) Prof. Yue Meng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Co-authors

Prof. Lijun Sun (Institute of High Energy Physics, China) Prof. Michael Wurm (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz) Prof. Paolo Lombardi (National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy) Prof. Xiao Tang (Institute of High Energy Physics, China) Prof. Xiaolan Luo (Institute of High Energy Physics, China)

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