1. Characterization of the correlated background for a sterile neutrino search using the first dataset of the JSNS$$^2$$ experiment
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Hino, Y., Ajimura, S., Cheoun, M. K., Choi, J. H., Dodo, T., Furuta, H., Goh, J., Haga, K., Harada, M., Hasegawa, S., Hiraiwa, T., Hwang, W., Jang, H. I., Jang, J. S., Jeon, H., Jeon, S., Joo, K. K., Jordan, J. R., Jung, D. E., Kang, S. K., Kasugai, Y., Kawasaki, T., Kim, E. J., Kim, J. Y., Kim, S. B., Kim, S. Y., Kim, W., Kinoshita, H., Konno, T., Lee, C. Y., Lee, D. H., Lee, S., Lim, I. T., Little, C., Marzec, E., Maruyama, T., Masuda, S., Meigo, S., Monjushiro, S., Moon, D. H., Nakano, T., Niiyama, M., Nishikawa, K., Nomachi, M., Pac, M. Y., Park, J. S., Park, R. G., Peeters, S. J. M., Ray, H., Rott, C., Sakai, K., Sakamoto, S., Shima, T., Shin, C. D., Spitz, J., Suekane, F., Sugaya, Y., Suzuya, K., Taira, M., Ujiie, R., Yamaguchi, Y., Yeh, M., Yeo, I. S., Yoo, C., and Yu, I.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
JSNS$^2$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment that is searching for sterile neutrinos via the observation of $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} \to \bar{\nu}_{e}$ appearance oscillations using muon decay-at-rest neutrinos. Before dedicated data taking in the first-half of 2021, we performed a commissioning run for 10 days in June 2020. Using the data obtained in this commissioning run, in this paper, we present an estimate of the correlated background which imitates the $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ signal in a sterile neutrino search. In addition, in order to demonstrate future prospects of the JSNS$^2$ experiment, possible pulse shape discrimination improvements towards reducing cosmic ray induced fast neutron background are described., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
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- 2022