Measurement of $$\alpha $$-particle quenching in LAB based scintillator in independent small-scale experiments

von Krosigk, B.; Chen, M.; Hans, S.; Junghans, A. R.; Kögler, T.; Kraus, C.; Kuckert, L.; Liu, X.; Nolte, R.; O’Keeffe, H. M.; Tseung, H. Wan Chan; Wilson, J. R.; Wright, A.; Yeh, M.; Zuber, K.

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3959-2

Title: Measurement of $$$$\alpha $$$$-particle quenching in LAB based scintillator in independent small-scale experiments

Journal Article · Mon Feb 29 00:00:00 EST 2016 · European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3959-2· OSTI ID:1251763

von Krosigk, B.; Chen, M.; Hans, S.; Junghans, A. R.; Kögler, T.; Kraus, C.; Kuckert, L.; Liu, X.; Nolte, R.; O’Keeffe, H. M.; Tseung, H. Wan Chan; Wilson, J. R.; Wright, A.; Yeh, M.; Zuber, K.

The α -particle light response of liquid scintillators based on linear alkylbenzene (LAB) has been measured with three different experimental approaches. In the first approach, α -particles were produced in the scintillator via ¹²C(n,α)⁹ Be reactions. In the second approach, the scintillator was loaded with 2 % of ^natSm providing an α-emitter, ¹⁴⁷Sm, as an internal source. In the third approach, a scintillator flask was deployed into the water-filled SNO+ detector and the radioactive contaminants ²²²Rn, ²¹⁸Po and ²¹⁴Po provided the α -particle signal. The behavior of the observed α -particle light outputs are in agreement with each case successfully described by Birks’ law. The resulting Birks parameter kB ranges from (0.0066±0.0016) to (0.0076±0.0003) cm/MeV. In the first approach, the α -particle light response was measured simultaneously with the light response of recoil protons produced via neutron–proton elastic scattering. This enabled a first time a direct comparison of kB describing the proton and the α -particle response of LAB based scintillator. The observed kB values describing the two light response functions deviate by more than 5σ . The presented results are valuable for all current and future detectors, using LAB based scintillator as target, since they depend on an accurate knowledge of the scintillator response to different particles.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1251763

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1439848

Report Number(s):: BNL-112083-2016-JAAM; 109; PII: 3959

Journal Information:: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Journal Name: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields Vol. 76 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 1434-6044

Publisher:: Springer Science + Business MediaCopyright Statement

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Language:: English

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