Novel opaque scintillator for neutrino detection

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Published 5 November 2019 © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
, , Citation C. Buck et al 2019 JINST 14 P11007 DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/14/11/P11007

1748-0221/14/11/P11007

Abstract

There is rising interest in organic scintillators with low scattering length for future neutrino detectors. Therefore, a new scintillator system was developed based on admixtures of paraffin wax in linear alkyl benzene. The transparency and viscosity of this gel-like material can be tuned by temperature adjustment. Whereas it is a colorless transparent liquid at temperatures around 40oC, it has a milky wax structure below 20oC. The production and properties of such a scintillator as well as its advantages compared to transparent liquids are described.

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