Water-based scintillators for large-scale liquid calorimetry

Conference · Fri Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1985 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5083558

Winn, D R; Raftery, D

We have investigated primary and secondary solvent intermediates in search of a recipe to create a bulk liquid scintillator with water as the bulk solvent and common fluors as the solutes. As we are not concerned with energy resolution below 1 MeV in large-scale experiments, light-output at the 10% level of high-quality organic solvent based scintillators is acceptable. We have found encouraging performance from industrial surfactants as primary solvents for PPO and POPOP. This technique may allow economical and environmentally safe bulk scintillator for kiloton-sized high energy calorimetry.

• Research Organization: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
• OSTI ID: 5083558
• Report Number(s): CONF-841007-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States) Journal Volume: NS-32:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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440104* -- Radiation Instrumentation-- High Energy Physics Instrumentation
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS
AZOLES
DISPERSIONS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LIQUID SCINTILLATORS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MIXTURES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC SOLVENTS
OXAZOLES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PERFORMANCE
PHOSPHORS
POPOP
RADIATION DETECTORS
RESOLUTION
SHOWER COUNTERS
SOLUTIONS
SOLVENTS
SURFACTANTS
WATER