Prediction of the reactor antineutrino flux for the Double Chooz experiment
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Author(s)
Jones, Christopher LaDon
Advisor(s)
Janet M. Conrad.
Date Issued
2012
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This thesis benchmarks the deterministic lattice code, DRAGON, against data, and then applies this code to make a prediction for the antineutrino flux from the Chooz BI and B2 reactors. Data from the destructive assay of rods from the Takahama-3 reactor and from the SONGS antineutrino detector are used for comparisons. The resulting prediction from the tuned DRAGON code is then compared to the first antineutrino event spectra from Double Chooz. Use of this simulation in nuclear nonproliferation studies is discussed.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2012.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-191).
Subjects
Physics.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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