Characterization of the spontaneous light emission of the PMTs used in the Double Chooz experiment

During the commissioning of the first of the two detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, an unexpected and dominant background caused by the emission of light inside the optical volume has been observed. A specific study of the ensemble of phenomena called Light Noise has been carried out in-situ,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Conrad, Janet Marie, Spitz, Joshua B., Terao, Kazuhiro
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: IOP Publishing 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120960
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-0438