Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator
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Contributors
- Chair of Nuclear Physics
- Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Queen's University Kingston
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
- Creighton Mine #9
- Queen Mary University of London
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of California at Davis
- University of Alberta
- University of Sussex
- Laurentian University
- University of Lisbon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Oxford
- The University of Chicago
- University of Coimbra
- University of Liverpool (UOL)
- TRIUMF
- King's College London (KCL)
- TUD Dresden University of Technology
- Institute for Nuclear Research
Abstract
A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is compatible with acrylic and has a competitive light yield to pre-existing liquid scintillators while conferring other advantages including longer attenuation lengths, superior safety characteristics, chemical simplicity, ease of handling, and logistical availability. Its properties have been extensively characterized and are presented here. This liquid scintillator is now used in several neutrino physics experiments in addition to SNO+.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | P05009 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of instrumentation |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2021 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| WOS | 000677883500007 |
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| Scopus | 85106239655 |
| Mendeley | 94b47826-11da-3735-8695-4f566c6e9176 |
Keywords
Keywords
- Double-beta decay detectors, Neutrino detectors, Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)