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Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Production of Muon-induced Radioactive Isotopes at Daya Bay Experiment

Speaker Ms. Sishuo Liu
Date May 8, 2014 (Thu)
Time 10:00 a.m.
Venue Room 522, 5/F, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU

Abstract

Cosmic-ray muon-induced radioactive isotopes are common backgrounds to various rare-event experiments, such as neutrino oscillation experiments, double beta-decay experiments and dark matter searches. Understanding the properties of such isotopes is particularly important for future experiments with higher sensitivities than the current generation. We study the relative production rate of the cosmogenic isotopes in the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. The production rates were measured by fitting the decay time and the beta energy spectrum of the isotopes respectively. The recent progress will be shown in the seminar.