Liquid scintillator tiles for calorimetry

Journal Article · Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of Instrumentation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/P11018· OSTI ID:1339139

Amouzegar, M. ^[1]; Belloni, A. ^[1]; Bilki, B. ^[2]; Calderon, J. ^[1]; Barbaro, P. De ^[3]; Eno, S. C. ^[1]; Hatakeyama, K. ^[4]; Hirschauer, J. ^[5]; Jeng, G. Y. ^[1]; Pastika, N. J. ^[4]; Pedro, K. ^[5]; Rumerio, Paolo ^[6]; Samuel, J. ^[1]; Sharp, E. ^[7]; Shin, Y. H. ^[1]; Tiras, E. ^[2]; Vishnevskiy, D. ^[3]; Wetzel, J. ^[2]; Yang, Z. ^[1]; Yao, Y. ^[1] ; Youn, S. W. ^[8]

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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

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.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359; SC0010072; SC0014088
• OSTI ID: 1339139
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-16-624-CMS; 1501824; TRN: US1701204
• Journal Information: Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 11, Issue 11; ISSN 1748-0221
• Publisher: Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Calorimeters
Liquid detectors
Radiation-hard detectors
Scintillators and scintillating fibres and light guides