1. Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND
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Abe, S., Asami, S., Eizuka, M., Futagi, S., Gando, A., Gando, Y., Gima, T., Goto, A., Hachiya, T., Hata, K., Hosokawa, K., Ichimura, K., Ieki, S., Ikeda, H., Inoue, K., Ishidoshiro, K., Kamei, Y., Kawada, N., Kishimoto, Y., Koga, M., Kurasawa, M., Mitsui, T., Miyake, H., Nakahata, T., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, R., Ozaki, H., Sakai, T., Shimizu, I., Shirai, J., Shiraishi, K., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, Y., Takeuchi, A., Tamae, K., Watanabe, H., Yoshida, Y., Obara, S., Ichikawa, A.K., Yoshida, S., Umehara, S., Fushimi, K., Kotera, K., Urano, Y., Berger, B.E., Fujikawa, B.K., Learned, J.G., Maricic, J., Axani, S.N., Fu, Z., Smolsky, J., Winslow, L.A., Efremenko, Y., Karwowski, H.J., Markoff, D.M., Tornow, W., Dell'Oro, S., O'Donnell, T., Detwiler, J.A., Enomoto, S., Decowski, M.P., Weerman, K.M., Grant, C., Li, A., and Song, H.
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Particle and Plasma Physics ,Molecular ,Nuclear ,Atomic ,Nuclear & Particles Physics - Abstract
Cosmic-ray muons produce various radioisotopes when passing through material. These spallation products can be backgrounds for rare event searches such as in solar neutrino, double-β decay, and dark matter search experiments. The KamLAND-Zen experiment searches for neutrinoless double-β decay in 745 kg of xenon dissolved in liquid scintillator. The experiment includes dead-time-free electronics with a high efficiency for detecting muon-induced neutrons. The production yields of different radioisotopes are measured with a combination of delayed coincidence techniques, newly developed muon reconstruction, and xenon spallation identification methods. The observed xenon spallation products are consistent with results from the fluka and geant4 simulation codes.
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- 2023