SCINTILLATION DECAY TIME AND PULSE-SHAPE DISCRIMINATION OF BINARY ORGANIC LIQUID SCINTILLATORS FOR THE BEREXINO DETECTOR

Authors
RANUCCI G ULLUCCI P BONETTI S MANNO I MERONI E PREDA A
Citation
G. Ranucci et al., SCINTILLATION DECAY TIME AND PULSE-SHAPE DISCRIMINATION OF BINARY ORGANIC LIQUID SCINTILLATORS FOR THE BEREXINO DETECTOR, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 350(1-2), 1994, pp. 338-350
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
350
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
338 - 350
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)350:1-2<338:SDTAPD>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The installation of a massive liquid scintillator detector, Borexino, devoted to the real time detection of low energy solar neutrinos, has been recently proposed at the Laboratory of Gran Sasso. The key featur es of this next generation solar neutrino experiment crucially rely up on the properties of the liquid scintillator used as detection medium. Thus a careful evaluation of these properties has been carried out. I n particular we describe here the results of the measurements performe d to determine the decay time of the scintillation light pulse for alp ha and electron excitation in different solvents and solutes suitable to be used in the detector.