Proton light yield of water-based liquid scintillator
| Main Authors: | Gabriel Orebi Gann, Edward Callaghan, Thibault Laplace, Juan Manfredi, Joshua Brown, Bethany Goldblum |
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| Format: | Proceeding poster eJournal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4123022 |
Daftar Isi:
- Future neutrino detectors, whether answering questions of fundamental physics or exercising nuclear monitoring techniques, will require advanced technologies for optimal performance. One such candidate technology is water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS), a material for which Cherenkov and scintillation light may be discriminated and examined independently. We present a measurement of the relative proton light yields of WbLS and an LAB-based liquid scintillator, using a broad-spectrum neutron source at the 88-Inch Cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A double-time-of-flight technique was employed, which allows for relatively pure selection of proton recoil events over a continuous energy range. We also present a characterization of the nonlinearity in photomultiplier tube response over the full dynamic range of the electronics system.