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Description
There are several application efforts underway in the U.S. that focus on antineutrino detection in the ‘near-field’, within 100m of a monitored location. The efforts to be described in this poster are based on technologies that use Inverse Beta Decay and Li-6 as a neutron capture agent since this supports compact systems with high efficiency and excellent background rejection. These include the Mobile Antineutrino Demonstrator, a realistically deployable antineutrino detection system that can operate at essentially any facility with no infrastructure support beyond electrical power and studies to advance high performance Li-6 loaded liquid scintillators and associated detector implementations. Additionally, we will describe studies of uses cases for which these technologies may be applicable and plans for measurement campaigns to advance their technical readiness.
This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. LLNL-ABS-2015809