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Characterization of a high light yield liquid scintillator with a novel organosilicon fluor developed for astroparticle physics experiments

European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2022
A new high light yield liquid scintillator based on linear alkylbenzene (LAB) as an organic solvent and a novel nanostructured organosilicon liminophore as a scintillation fluor has been developed for the next generation large-scale experiments in ...
A. Sidorenkov, O. Borshchev, A. Fazliakhmetov, A. Lukanov, B. Lubsandorzhiev, S. Lubsandorzhiev, D. Nanzanov, S. Ponomarenko, M. Skorotetcky, N. Surin, E. Svidchenko, N. Ushakov, D. Voronin   +12 more
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Recent results from Borexino on solar neutrinos [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2023
Borexino has been a neutrino detector based on ultrapure liquid scintillator, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. Its main scientific goal was the real-time measurement of solar neutrino fluxes, which play an irreplaceable role for
Basilico D., Appel S., Bagdasarian Z., Bellini G., Benziger J., Biondi R., Caccianiga B., Calaprice F., Caminata A., Chepurnov A., D’Angelo D., Derbin A., Di Giacinto A., Di Marcello V., Ding X.F., Di Ludovico A., Di Noto L., Drachnev I., Franco D., Galbiati C., Ghiano C., Giammarchi M., Goretti A., Göttel A.S., Gromov L., Guffanti D., Ianni Aldo, Ianni Andrea, Jany A., Kobychev V., Korga G., Kumaran S., Laubenstein M., Litvinovich E., Lombardi P., Lomskaya I., Ludhova L., Lukyanchenko G., Machulin I., Martyn J., Meroni E., Miramonti L., Misiaszek M., Muratova V., Nugmanov R., Oberauer L., Orekhov V., Ortica F., Pallavicini M., Pelicci L., Penek Ö., Pietrofaccia L., Pilipenko N., Pocar A., Raikov G., Ranalli M.T., Ranucci G., Razeto A., Re A., Redchuk M., Rossi N., Schönert S., Semenov D., Settanta G., Skorokhvatov M., Singhal A., Smirnov O., Sotnikov A., Tartaglia R., Testera G., Unzhakov E., Villante F., Vishneva A., Vogelaar R.B., von Feilitzsch F., Wojcik M., Wurm M., Zavatarelli S., Zuber K., Zuzel G.   +79 more
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Neutrino physics with an opaque detector

Communications Physics, 2021
Liquid scintillator detectors have been used to study neutrinos ever since their discovery in 1956. The authors introduce an opaque scintillator detector concept for future neutrino experiments with increased capacity for particle identification and a ...
LiquidO Consortium
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Characterization of water-based liquid scintillator for Cherenkov and scintillation separation

European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2020
This paper presents measurements of the scintillation light yield and time profile for a number of concentrations of water-based liquid scintillator, formulated from linear alkylbenzene (LAB) and 2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO).
J. Caravaca, B. J. Land, M. Yeh, G. D. Orebi Gann   +3 more
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Liquid scintillator composition optimization for use in ultra-high energy cosmic ray detector systems

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
The Horizon-T (HT) detector system and the currently under R&D HT-KZ detector system are designed for the detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) with energies above ∼1016 eV (∼1017 eV for HT-KZ).
Beznosko Dmitriy, Batyrkhanov Ayan, Iakovlev Alexander, Yelshibekov Khalykbek   +3 more
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Fabrication of Liquid Scintillators Loaded with 6-Phenylhexanoic Acid-Modified ZrO₂ Nanoparticles for Observation of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Nanomaterials, 2021
The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay is an important issue in nuclear and particle physics. The development of organic liquid scintillators with high transparency and a high concentration of the target isotope would be very useful for ...
Akito Watanabe, Arisa Magi, Akira Yoko, Gimyeong Seong, Takaaki Tomai, Tadafumi Adschiri, Yamato Hayashi, Masanori Koshimizu, Yutaka Fujimoto, Keisuke Asai   +9 more
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Double Beta Decay Experiments With Loaded Liquid Scintillator

Frontiers in Physics, 2019
Liquid scintillator detectors have many properties which are highly advantageous for neutrino research at the MeV energy scale. There are various choices of additives to an organic liquid scintillator which typically function as the nuclear targets in a ...
Itaru Shimizu, Mark Chen
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Application of GPU in Fast Muon Simulation [PDF]

Jisuanji gongcheng, 2021
For the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory(JUNO) experiment, a liquid scintillator detector with the largest size and highest energy accuracy in the world is used.
YI Peihuai, LI Weidong, LIN Tao, ZOU Jiaheng, DENG Ziyan, LIU Yan
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Performance comparison of different SiPM arrays coupled to neutron-γ scintillators [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2023
The market for SiPMs has grown rapidly in recent years, driven by their increasing use in applications such as medical imaging, nuclear and particle physics.
Delgado Jessica, Pino Felix, Moretto Sandra, Corti Daniele, Griggio Alessandro, Pancheri Lucio, Fabris Daniela   +6 more
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Development of a Liquid Scintillator Using Water for a Next Generation Neutrino Experiment

Advances in High Energy Physics, 2014
A feasibility study on a new type of liquid scintillator based on water has been performed. Mainly due to the differences in polarities between water and oil, organic solvents are not mixed in water. In order to make a liquid scintillator based on water,
Sun Heang So, Kyung Kwang Joo, Ba Ro Kim, Bong Keon Kim, Seung Chan Kim, Chang Dong Shin, In Sung Yeo   +6 more
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