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Neutron-induced nuclear recoil background in the PandaX-4T experiment

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arxiv 2206.06087 v2 pith:36SQ2HJN submitted 2022-06-13 hep-ex physics.ins-det

Neutron-induced nuclear recoil background in the PandaX-4T experiment

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Neutron-induced nuclear recoil background is critical to the dark matter searches in the PandaX-4T liquid xenon experiment. This paper studies the feature of neutron background in liquid xenon and evaluates their contribution in the single scattering nuclear recoil events through three methods. The first method is fully Monte Carlo simulation based. The last two are data-driven methods that also use the multiple scattering signals and high energy signals in the data, respectively. In the PandaX-4T commissioning data with an exposure of 0.63 tonne-year, all these methods give a consistent result that there are $1.15\pm0.57$ neutron-induced background in dark matter signal region within an approximated nuclear recoil energy window between 5 and 100 keV.

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