Waterproofed photomultiplier tube assemblies for the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment

In the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment 960 20-cm-diameter waterproof photomultiplier tubes are used to instrument three water pools as Cherenkov detectors for detecting cosmic-ray muons. Of these 960 photomultiplier tubes, 341 are recycled from the MACRO experiment. A systematic program was und...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2015-09, Vol.794 (C), p.25-32
Main Authors: Chow, Ken, Cummings, John, Edwards, Emily, Edwards, William, Ely, Ry, Hoff, Matthew, Lebanowski, Logan, Li, Bo, Li, Piyi, Lin, Shih-Kai, Liu, Dawei, Liu, Jinchang, Luk, Kam-Biu, Miao, Jiayuan, Napolitano, Jim, Ochoa-Ricoux, Juan Pedro, Peng, Jen-Chieh, Qi, Ming, Steiner, Herbert, Stoler, Paul, Stuart, Mary, Wang, Lingyu, Yang, Changgen, Zhong, Weili
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti-neutrino
Daya Bay
MACRO
Photomultiplier tube
Reactor
Waterproof
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Summary:In the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment 960 20-cm-diameter waterproof photomultiplier tubes are used to instrument three water pools as Cherenkov detectors for detecting cosmic-ray muons. Of these 960 photomultiplier tubes, 341 are recycled from the MACRO experiment. A systematic program was undertaken to refurbish them as waterproof assemblies. In the context of passing the water leakage check, a success rate better than 97% was achieved. Details of the design, fabrication, testing, operation, and performance of these waterproofed photomultiplier-tube assemblies are presented.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2015.05.002