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Description
The goals of the νGeN experiment, carried out at the Kalinin NPP, include a measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and the search for electromagnetic properties of neutrinos, in particular its magnetic moment. The experiment relies on comparison of the spectra obtained with the reactor running and stopped to reveal the neutrino-induced signal. Thus, the components of backgrounds that can be correlated with the reactor status, such as the neutron background, are of great interest. The poster presents an analysis of the neutron background in the νGeN room, carried out using the BC-501A detector based on a liquid organic scintillator. In addition, evaluation of the thermal neutron fluxes inside the shielding of the setup is performed based on the (n, γ)-reaction peaks using a germanium spectrometer.
