Wavelength-shifter coated polystyrene as an easy-to-build and low-cost plastic scintillator detector

A. Brignoli, A. Conaboy, V. Dormenev +6

We studied the light yield of a pure polystyrene slide coated with wavelength-shifter molecules, coupled to a photomultiplier, using beta particles from a 90-Sr source, as a possib…