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Analysis of Cosmogenic Neutron Characteristics and the Pulses Counting Rate Using ASD, LSD, and LVD Scintillation Detectors

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Experimental data obtained using three scintillation detectors are analyzed. The characteristics of cosmogenic neutrons in underground experiments their analytic dependences are considered. The behavior of background counting rate for the LVD detector for two measuring thresholds (0.5 and 5 MeV) are discussed.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to the staff of the EMDN Laboratory of the Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, who developed, realized, and contributed to the ASD, LSD, and LVD experiments, the ideas of which are described in this article and who are no more with us.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312, Moscow, Russia

    N. Yu. Agafonova, V. V. Ashikhmin, E. A. Dobrynina, R. I. Enikeev, A. S. Malgin, O. G. Ryazhskaya, I. R. Shakiryanova & V. F. Yakushev

  2. University of Torino and INFN-Torino, 10125, Turin, Italy

    M. Aglietta, P. Galeotti, G. C. Trinchero & C. F. Vigorito

  3. INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, 10025, Turin, Italy

    M. Aglietta, W. Fulgione, P. Galeotti & G. C. Trinchero

  4. University of Bologna and INFN-Bologna, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    P. Antonioli, G. Bari, M. Garbini, P. Giusti, R. Persiani, G. Sartorelli, M. Selvi & A. Zichichi

  5. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100, Assergi, L’Aquila, Italy

    G. Bruno, W. Fulgione & A. Molinario

  6. New York University, 129188, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    G. Bruno

  7. Centro Enrico Fermi, 00184, Roma, Italy

    M. Garbini & A. Zichichi

  8. Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot Curie, CNRS, 91406, Orsay, France

    P. L. Ghia

  9. University of Campinas, 13083, Campinas, Brazil

    E. Kemp

  10. Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    A. Molinario

  11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, USA

    I. A. Pless

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Agafonova, N.Y., Aglietta, M., Antonioli, P. et al. Analysis of Cosmogenic Neutron Characteristics and the Pulses Counting Rate Using ASD, LSD, and LVD Scintillation Detectors. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 134, 449–458 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776122040124

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