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Liquid scintillator as tracking detector for high-energy events

Instrumentation and Detectors 2009-09-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A large-volume liquid scintillator can be used as a tracking detector to measure high-energy neutrino events, like atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino beams. The lepton flavor recognition is almost absolute above 1 GeV. The energy resolution is 2--5 %, the main uncertainties coming from nuclear physics and poorly recognized hadrons. At GeV scale antineutrinos may be statistically distinguishable from neutrinos by neutron and proton signals.

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@article{arxiv.0909.4974,
  title  = {Liquid scintillator as tracking detector for high-energy events},
  author = {Juha Peltoniemi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.4974},
  year   = {2009}
}

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