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A new experiment, called the NEutrino Oscillation at Short baseline (NEOS), is proposed on the site of Hanbit Reactors at Yonggwang, South Korea, to investigate a reactor antineutrino anomaly. The homogeneous NEOS detector having a 1000-l target volume was constructed and deployed at the tendon gallery 25 m away from the reactor core. The NEOS detector employs a linear alkylbenzene (LAB) based gadolinium loaded liquid scintillator with 10 % di-isopropylnaphthalene (DIN) based liquid scintillator to improve the particle identification via pulse shape discrimination. In this paper, we report the procedure for the mass production of the Gd-loaded scintillator for the NEOS detector.
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This work was supported by grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of the Korean government (2012M2B2A6030210), Samsung Science & Technology Foundation (SSTF-BA1402-06), and Grant No. IBS-R016-D1.
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Kim, B.R., Han, B., Jeon, E. et al. Development and mass production of a mixture of LAB- and DIN-based gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator for the NEOS short-baseline neutrino experiment. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 310, 311–316 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-016-4826-1
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