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IOP Publishing, New Journal of Physics, 7(13), p. 073006, 2011

DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/7/073006

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Full simulation of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory proportional counters

Journal article published in 2011 by B. Beltran, H. Bichsel, B. Cai, G. A. Cox, H. Deng, J. Detwiler, J. A. Formaggio, S. Habib, A. L. Hallin, A. Hime, M. Huang, C. Kraus, H. R. Leslie, J. C. Loach, R. Martin and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

The third phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment added an array of 3He proportional counters to the detector. The purpose of this neutral-current detection (NCD) array was to observe neutrons resulting from neutral-current solar-neutrino–deuteron interactions. We have developed a detailed simulation of current pulses from NCD array proportional counters, from the primary neutron capture on 3He through NCD array signal-processing electronics. This NCD array MC simulation was used to model the alpha-decay background in SNO's third-phase 8B solar-neutrino measurement.