Slow Fluors for Effective Separation of Cherenkov Light in Liquid Scintillators

Abstract

The timing and spectral characteristics of four highly efficient, slow fluors are presented for liquid scintillator solutions using linear alkylbenzene (LAB) as the primary solvent. The mixtures exhibit high light yields, but with rise times of several ns or more and decay times on the order of tens of ns. Consequently, such liquid scintillator mixtures can be used for effective separation of Cherenkov and scintillation components based on timing in large scale liquid scintillation detectors. Such a separation, showing high light yield and directional information, is demonstrated here on a bench-top scale for electrons with energies extending below 1 MeV. This could have significant consequences for the future development of such detectors for measurements of solar neutrinos and neutrinoless double beta decay as well as providing good directional information for elastic scattering events from supernovae neutrinos and reactor anti-neutrinos, amongst others.

arXiv comment28 pages, 16 figures

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