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Title: Liquid scintillator tiles for calorimetry

Abstract

Future experiments in high energy and nuclear physics may require large, inexpensive calorimeters that can continue to operate after receiving doses of 50 Mrad or more. Also, the light output of liquid scintillators suffers little degradation under irradiation. However, many challenges exist before liquids can be used in sampling calorimetry, especially regarding developing a packaging that has sufficient efficiency and uniformity of light collection, as well as suitable mechanical properties. We present the results of a study of a scintillator tile based on the EJ-309 liquid scintillator using cosmic rays and test beam on the light collection efficiency and uniformity, and some preliminary results on radiation hardness.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [5];  [1];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [1];  [7];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [1];  [1] more »;  [8] « less
  1. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Department of Physics
  2. Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States). Department of Physics
  3. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Department of Physics
  4. Baylor Univ., Waco, TX (United States). Department of Physics
  5. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  6. Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States). Dept. of Physics ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  7. Elmer Sharp Engineering, Springfield, VA (United States)
  8. Institute for Basic Science, Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research, Yuseong-gu (South Korea). Department of Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1339139
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-16-624-CMS
Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221; 1501824; TRN: US1701204
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359; SC0010072; SC0014088
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Instrumentation
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Calorimeters; Liquid detectors; Radiation-hard detectors; Scintillators and scintillating fibres and light guides

Citation Formats

Amouzegar, M., Belloni, A., Bilki, B., Calderon, J., Barbaro, P. De, Eno, S. C., Hatakeyama, K., Hirschauer, J., Jeng, G. Y., Pastika, N. J., Pedro, K., Rumerio, Paolo, Samuel, J., Sharp, E., Shin, Y. H., Tiras, E., Vishnevskiy, D., Wetzel, J., Yang, Z., Yao, Y., and Youn, S. W.. Liquid scintillator tiles for calorimetry. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/P11018.
Amouzegar, M., Belloni, A., Bilki, B., Calderon, J., Barbaro, P. De, Eno, S. C., Hatakeyama, K., Hirschauer, J., Jeng, G. Y., Pastika, N. J., Pedro, K., Rumerio, Paolo, Samuel, J., Sharp, E., Shin, Y. H., Tiras, E., Vishnevskiy, D., Wetzel, J., Yang, Z., Yao, Y., & Youn, S. W.. Liquid scintillator tiles for calorimetry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/P11018
Amouzegar, M., Belloni, A., Bilki, B., Calderon, J., Barbaro, P. De, Eno, S. C., Hatakeyama, K., Hirschauer, J., Jeng, G. Y., Pastika, N. J., Pedro, K., Rumerio, Paolo, Samuel, J., Sharp, E., Shin, Y. H., Tiras, E., Vishnevskiy, D., Wetzel, J., Yang, Z., Yao, Y., and Youn, S. W.. Mon . "Liquid scintillator tiles for calorimetry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/P11018. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1339139.
@article{osti_1339139,
title = {Liquid scintillator tiles for calorimetry},
author = {Amouzegar, M. and Belloni, A. and Bilki, B. and Calderon, J. and Barbaro, P. De and Eno, S. C. and Hatakeyama, K. and Hirschauer, J. and Jeng, G. Y. and Pastika, N. J. and Pedro, K. and Rumerio, Paolo and Samuel, J. and Sharp, E. and Shin, Y. H. and Tiras, E. and Vishnevskiy, D. and Wetzel, J. and Yang, Z. and Yao, Y. and Youn, S. W.},
abstractNote = {Future experiments in high energy and nuclear physics may require large, inexpensive calorimeters that can continue to operate after receiving doses of 50 Mrad or more. Also, the light output of liquid scintillators suffers little degradation under irradiation. However, many challenges exist before liquids can be used in sampling calorimetry, especially regarding developing a packaging that has sufficient efficiency and uniformity of light collection, as well as suitable mechanical properties. We present the results of a study of a scintillator tile based on the EJ-309 liquid scintillator using cosmic rays and test beam on the light collection efficiency and uniformity, and some preliminary results on radiation hardness.},
doi = {10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/P11018},
journal = {Journal of Instrumentation},
number = 11,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}