Scintillation of liquid neon from electronic and nuclear recoils

J. A. Nikkel; R. Hasty; W. H. Lippincott; D. N. McKinsey

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.12.005

Scintillation of liquid neon from electronic and nuclear recoils

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1

Authors: J. A. Nikkel , R. Hasty , W. H. Lippincott , D. N. McKinsey

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Abstract

We have measured the time dependence of scintillation light from electronic and nuclear recoils in liquid neon, finding a slow time constant of 15.4+-0.2 us. Pulse shape discrimination is investigated as a means of identifying event type in liquid neon. Finally, the nuclear recoil scintillation efficiency is measured to be 0.26+-0.03 for 387 keV nuclear recoils.

Keywords

scintillation liquid neon pulse shape discrimination nuclear recoil time constant

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0612108,
  title  = {Scintillation of liquid neon from electronic and nuclear recoils},
  author = {J. A. Nikkel and R. Hasty and W. H. Lippincott and D. N. McKinsey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0612108},
  year   = {2008}
}

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