Liquids-in-capillaries: New fiber detectors for high energy physics applications

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5883535

Baumbaugh, B.; Bose, A.; Ditmire, T.; Kennedy, C.; Puseljic, D.; Ruchti, R.; Ryan, J.; Baumbaugh, A.; Knickerbocker, K.; Ellis, J.

We are developing scintillating-fiber detectors incorporating organic liquid scintillation cocktails in glass capillaries. The organic solvents have high refractive index, making them suitable as core materials for scintillation waveguides. Only one fluorescent dye at high concentration (1%) is utilized in the solution. This ensures that the dominant energy transfer between solvent and solute will be nonradiative, and that fluorescent emission from the dye will be local to the ionization deposition in the material. Hence such structures might be suitable for high resolution tracking devices. Liquid scintillation solutions may also provide advantages in radiation resistance and replaceability. 8 refs., 6 tabs.

• Research Organization: Notre Dame Univ., IN (USA). Dept. of Physics; Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-87ER40372; AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 5883535
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40372-T2; UND-HEP-3-24-89; CONF-8811199-3-App.II; ON: DE89013679
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

440104* -- Radiation Instrumentation-- High Energy Physics Instrumentation
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ATTENUATION
DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
LIQUID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIATION DETECTORS
REFRACTIVITY
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
WAVEGUIDES