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MAD-PSD is one of two reactor antineutrino detection subsystems constructed by the Mobile Antineutrino Demonstrator (MAD) project. Constructed from large bar castings of 6Li-doped pulse shape discriminating (PSD) plastic scintillator, this device is designed to perform reactor monitoring measurements with little to no overburden. MAD-PSD is formed from 64 plastic scintillator bars with dimensions of 6 cm x 6 cm x 100 cm and uses segmentation and particle identification to efficiently reject cosmogenic neutron backgrounds. This poster will describe important design features of the detector and present commissioning and calibration measurements in preparation for a reactor deployment.
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-2015810.