PoGOLino: a scintillator-based balloon-borne neutron detector
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2014-10-10 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
PoGOLino is a balloon-borne scintillator-based experiment developed to study the largely unexplored high altitude neutron environment at high geomagnetic latitudes. The instrument comprises two detectors that make use of LiCAF, a novel neutron sensitive scintillator, sandwiched by BGO crystals for background reduction. The experiment was launched on March 20th 2013 from the Esrange Space Centre, Northern Sweden (geomagnetic latitude of ), for a three hour flight during which the instrument took data up to an altitude of 30.9 km. The detector design and ground calibration results are presented together with the measurement results from the balloon flight.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.2377,
title = {PoGOLino: a scintillator-based balloon-borne neutron detector},
author = {Merlin Kole and Maxime Chauvin and Yasushi Fukazawa and Kentaro Fukuda and Sumito Ishizu and Miranda Jackson and Tune Kamae and Noriaki Kawaguchi and Takafumi Kawano and Mozsi Kiss and Elena Moretti and Mark Pearce and Stefan Rydström and Hiromitsu Takahashi and Takayuki Yanagida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.2377},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A