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Preliminary results of neutron generation by muons, produced in CERN neutrino beam with average energy 17 GeV in LVD experiment are presented for the period 2008–2011 yrs. A Monte Carlo simulation of neutrons produced by horizontal muons was performed using the Geant4 software package. The efficiency of neutron detection in the LVD was calculated. For iron-based and white spirit scintillators, the measured neutron yields prove to be Y sc = (3.6 ± 0.7) × 10−5 n/μ (g−1 cm2) and Y Fe = (23.2 ± 4.6) × 10−5 n/μ (g−1 cm2).
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Original Russian Text © N.Yu. Agafonova, V.V. Ashikhmin, V.L. Dadykin, E.A. Dobrynina, R.I. Enikeev, A.S. Malgin, V.V. Manukovsky, O.G. Ryazhskaya, V.G. Ryasny, I.R. Shakiryanova, A.V. Yudin, V.F. Yakushev, the LVD Collaboration, 2015, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2015, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 439–441.
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Agafonova, N.Y., Ashikhmin, V.V., Dadykin, V.L. et al. Generation of neutrons produced by muons from CERN neutrino beam. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 79, 404–406 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873815030041
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873815030041