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Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND

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arxiv 2301.09307 v1 pith:4WQ524EP submitted 2023-01-23 hep-ex nucl-exphysics.ins-det

Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND

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keywords spallationproductsxenoncosmic-raydecaydouble-betaexperimentliquid
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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-beta decay, and dark matter search experiments. The KamLAND-Zen experiment searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 745kg 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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