Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator
Instrumentation and Detectors
2021-05-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
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+.
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@article{arxiv.2011.12924,
title = {Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator},
author = {SNO+ Collaboration and : and M. R. Anderson and S. Andringa and L. Anselmo and E. Arushanova and S. Asahi and M. Askins and D. J. Auty and A. R. Back and Z. Barnard and N. Barros and D. Bartlett and F. Barão and R. Bayes and E. W. Beier and A. Bialek and S. D. Biller and E. Blucher and R. Bonventre and M. Boulay and D. Braid and E. Caden and E. J. Callaghan and J. Caravaca and J. Carvalho and L. Cavalli and D. Chauhan and M. Chen and O. Chkvorets and K. J. Clark and B. Cleveland and D. Cookman and C. Connors and I. T. Coulter and M. A. Cox and D. Cressy and X. Dai and C. Darrach and B. Davis-Purcell and C. Deluce and M. M. Depatie and F. Descamps and J. Dittmer and F. Di Lodovico and N. Duhaime and F. Duncan and J. Dunger and A. D. Earle and D. Fabris and E. Falk and A. Farrugia and N. Fatemighomi and V. Fischer and E. Fletcher and R. Ford and K. Frankiewicz and N. Gagnon and A. Gaur and K. Gilje and O. I. González-Reina and D. Gooding and P. Gorel and K. Graham and C. Grant and J. Grove and S. Grullon and E. Guillian and S. Hall and A. L. Hallin and D. Hallman and S. Hans and J. Hartnell and P. Harvey and M. Hedayatipour and W. J. Heintzelman and J. Heise and R. L. Helmer and D. Horne and B. Hreljac and J. Hu and A. S. M. Hussain and T. Iida and A. S. Inácio and M. Jackson and N. A. Jelley and C. J. Jillings and C. Jones and P. G. Jones and K. Kamdin and T. Kaptanoglu and J. Kaspar and K. Keeter and C. Kefelian and P. Khaghani and L. Kippenbrock and J. R. Klein and R. Knapik and J. Kofron and L. L. Kormos and S. Korte and B. Krar and C. Kraus and C. B. Krauss and T. Kroupova and K. Labe and F. Lafleur and I. Lam and C. Lan and B. J. Land and R. Lane and S. Langrock and A. LaTorre and I. Lawson and L. Lebanowski and G. M. Lefeuvre and E. J. Leming and A. Li and J. Lidgard and B. Liggins and Y. H. Lin and X. Liu and Y. Liu and V. Lozza and M. Luo and S. Maguire and A. Maio and K. Majumdar and S. Manecki and J. Maneira and R. D. Martin and E. Marzec and A. Mastbaum and J. Mauel and N. McCauley and A. B. McDonald and P. Mekarski and M. Meyer and C. Miller and C. Mills and M. Mlejnek and E. Mony and I. Morton-Blake and M. J. Mottram and S. Nae and M. Nirkko and L. J. Nolan and V. M. Novikov and H. M. O'Keeffe and E. O'Sullivan and G. D. Orebi Gann and M. J. Parnell and J. Paton and S. J. M. Peeters and T. Pershing and Z. Petriw and J. Petzoldt and L. Pickard and D. Pracsovics and G. Prior and J. C. Prouty and S. Quirk and A. Reichold and S. Riccetto and R. Richardson and M. Rigan and A. Robertson and J. Rose and R. Rosero and P. M. Rost and J. Rumleskie and M. A. Schumaker and M. H. Schwendener and D. Scislowski and J. Secrest and M. Seddighin and L. Segui and S. Seibert and I. Semenec and F. Shaker and T. Shantz and M. K. Sharma and T. M. Shokair and L. Sibley and J. R. Sinclair and K. Singh and P. Skensved and M. Smiley and T. Sonley and R. Stainforth and M. Strait and M. I. Stringer and R. Svoboda and A. Sörensen and B. Tam and J. Tatar and L. Tian and N. Tolich and J. Tseng and H. W. C. Tseung and E. Turner and R. Van Berg and J. G. C. Veinot and C. J. Virtue and B. von Krosigk and E. Vázquez-Jáuregui and J. M. G. Walker and M. Walker and S. C. Walton and J. Wang and M. Ward and O. Wasalski and J. Waterfield and J. J. Weigand and R. F. White and J. R. Wilson and T. J. Winchester and P. Woosaree and A. Wright and J. P. Yanez and M. Yeh and T. Zhang and Y. Zhang and T. Zhao and K. Zuber and A. Zummo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12924},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
21 pages, 10 figures