Status of Scintillator Development at Fermilab
- Fermilab
Fermilab has had a 20+ year history in producing scintillator and is now one of the largest producers of organic scintillator in the world. Its scintillator has been used in a wide variety of applications including archeology, volcanology, mining exploration, agriculture, national security, as well as more traditional applications in HEP and Astro-particle physics. We will survey these applications. We have a scintillator extrusion facility and recently we have added injection molding capacity. We will discuss ongoing and near-term future projects for these facilities. We discuss ongoing R&D to improve light yield and timing performance of the extruded scintillator and hence reduce cost. We will discuss methods to improve light yield of injection-molded scintillator by refinements in the scintillator chemistry and process. Finally, we will present longer-term future plans for making new scintillating materials tailored for specific applications.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 2204665
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-SLIDES-23-306-PPD; oai:inspirehep.net:2717753
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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