Estudo, desenvolvimento e análise da instrumentação do experimento Neutrinos-Angra

Abstract

The Neutrinos-Angra project aims at developing an anti-neutrino detector where the main proposal is to measure the dissipated power of nuclear reactors, in particular, the reactor of Angra II, located in Angra do Reis, Rio de Janeiro. The detector, which is in commissioning phase, comprises a box of around 1 cubic meter of water and it is surrounded by 48 sensor (photo-multipliers). This detector is basically composed by two modules, the inner one (the target) is designed to detect antineutrinos. The outer detector aims at detecting the background noise (the VETO system). Each sensor comprises a customized readout electronics and a signal digitizer system. The digitized signals are processed by an online event selector system in order to store only relevant information. The work described here aims at implementing an environment to commissioning the Neutrinos-Angra sensor’s and its readout electronics. The results of the main test will be described together with the analysis performed using real data acquired with the central detector, but using cosmic rays. Therefore, it allowed a first integration test of the detector and its readout electronics.