  In this study, the conceptual design and physics simulations of a near-field
Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) detector placed 100 meters from the
Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP), currently under construction and aiming at
being Turkey's first nuclear power plant, is presented. The ANPP is an
excellent opportunity for neutrino studies and the development of an R&D
program for neutrino detectors in Turkey. The Reactor Neutrino Experiments of
Turkey (RNET) program includes a compact and portable detector with a 2.5-ton
volume of WbLS and a ~30% photo-coverage, and the program is planned to be
expanded with a medium-size 30-ton detector that will be an international
testbed for low energy neutrino studies for WbLS and new detector technologies.
In the following, the focus will be on the smaller ~2.5-ton detector,
instrumented with 8-inch high quantum efficiency PMTs and two layers of cosmic
veto paddles, covering all sides of the detector, to track and veto cosmic
particles. Inverse Beta Decay (IBD) events from electronic antineutrinos
generated in the reactor core are simulated using the RAT-PAC simulation
package and several liquids with different percentages of Liquid Scintillator
(LS) and Gadolinium (Gd) are investigated.
