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arxiv: astro-ph/0208381 · v3 · submitted 2002-08-20 · 🌌 astro-ph

Study of the Backgrounds for the Search for Proton Decay to 10³5 Y at the WIPP Site with the LANNDD Detector

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We briefly describe the LANNDD 70-kT liquid argon TPC proposal for the WIPP underground facility at Carlsbad, New Mexico. We, then, identify the key backgrounds for the search for p -> K+ nu_bar to 10^35 years lifetime. The most serious non-neutrino background is due to high-energy neutrons producing strange particles in the detector. We show that this can be reduced to an acceptable level by appropriate fiducial volume cuts.

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