TY - JOUR
T1 - Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator
AU - Wilson, Jeanne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/5/10
Y1 - 2021/5/10
N2 - 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+.
AB - 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+.
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U2 - 10.1088/1748-0221/16/05/P05009
DO - 10.1088/1748-0221/16/05/P05009
M3 - Article
SN - 1748-0221
VL - 16
JO - Journal of Instrumentation
JF - Journal of Instrumentation
IS - 5
M1 - P05009
ER -