LARGE AREA LIQUID SCINTILLATION AND CERENKOV COUNTERS
A counter of 1 m/sup 2/ area and 10 cm deep is described which uses medicinal paraffin as the scintillator solvent. Although only one-third as efficient as other liquid scintillators it is cheap and has a much higher flash point. Using two 5 in. photomultipliers the counter had a resolution of 62% for the cosmic ray peak. For comparison purposes a Cherenkov counter of similar area was studied. Using a wavelength shifter, which improved the performance by a factor of five, this counter has a comparable resolution but needs to be very much deeper than the scintillation counter. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Northern Polytechnic, London
- NSA Number:
- NSA-16-023937
- OSTI ID:
- 4806085
- Journal Information:
- J. Sci. Instr., Journal Name: J. Sci. Instr. Vol. Vol: 39
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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