Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator

Kormos, L. L. and O'Keeffe, H. M. and Parnell, M. J. (2021) Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator. Journal of Instrumentation, 16: P05009. ISSN 1748-0221

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Abstract

A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is compatible with acrylic and has a competitive light yield to pre-existing liquid scintillators while conferring other advantages including longer attenuation lengths, superior safety characteristics, chemical simplicity, ease of handling, and logistical availability. Its properties have been extensively characterized and are presented here. This liquid scintillator is now used in several neutrino physics experiments in addition to SNO+.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Journal of Instrumentation

Additional Information:

This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication/published in Journal of Instrumentation. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at doi:10.1088/1748-0221/16/05/P05009

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3105

Subjects:

?? physics.ins-dethep-exinstrumentationmathematical physics ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics

ID Code:

154798

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

12 May 2021 08:30

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

20 Feb 2024 00:55

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/154798