Muon induced radioactivity in the next generation of neutrino experiments

摘要

A new generation of detectors is currently developed and aims to study neutrinos' properties and to search the proton decay. In rare events experiments, a good knowledge of the radioactive background is required in order to avoid the registration of the signal produced by false events. In this work, the muon fluxes in different locations of interest are obtained using EXPACS-PARMA software. The muon induced neutron flux is calculated with particle transport code FLUKA and some reactions of interest with argon, material which is used as target and detector for neutrino experiments, are studied using nuclear reaction codes TALYS and EMPIRE.