Performance of a full scale prototype detector at the BR2 reactor for the SoLid experiment Universiteit Gent KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Antwerpen
The SoLid collaboration has developed a new detector technology to detect electron anti-neutrinos at close proximity to the Belgian BR2 reactor at surface level. A 288 kg prototype detector was deployed in 2015 and collected data during the operational period of the reactor and during reactor shut-down. Dedicated calibration campaigns were also performed with gamma and neutron sources. This paper describes the construction of the prototype ...