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A future large-volume liquid scintillator detector would provide a high-statistics measurement of terrestrial antineutrinos originating from $\beta$-decays of the uranium and thorium chains. In addition, the forward displacement of the…

The recent development of water-based liquid scintillator and the concurrent development of high-efficiency and high-precision-timing light sensors has opened up the possibility for a new kind of large-scale detector capable of a very broad…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabriel D. Orebi Gann

A large area plastic scintillator detector array(~ 1 m x1m) has been set up for fast neutron spectroscopy at the BARC-TIFR Pelletron laboratory, Mumbai. The energy, time and position response has been measured for electrons using…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-01-16 P. C. Rout , D. R. Chakrabarty , V. M. Datar , Suresh Kumar , E. T. Mirgule , A. Mitra , V. Nanal , R. Kujur

Liquid-scintillator-based detectors are a robust technology that scales well to large volumes. For this reason, they are attractive for experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay. A combination of improved photo-detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-12 Lindley Winslow

A large-scale neutrino observatory based on Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) will be excellently suited for a measurement of the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB). The WbLS technique offers high signal efficiency and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-28 Julia Sawatzki , Michael Wurm , Daniel Kresse

Purification of the 278 tons of liquid scintillator and 889 tons of buffer shielding for the Borexino solar neutrino detector was performed with a system that combined distillation, water extraction, gas stripping and filtration. The…

The recent discovery that GaAs(Si,B) is a bright cryogenic scintillator with no apparent afterglow offers new opportunities for detecting rare, low-energy, electronic excitations from interacting dark matter. This paper presents Monte Carlo…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-04 Stephen E. Derenzo

We examine the reach of a Beta-beam experiment with two detectors at carefully chosen baselines for exploring neutrino mass parameters. Locating the source at CERN, the two detectors and baselines are: (a) a 50 kton iron calorimeter (ICAL)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Sandhya Choubey , Amitava Raychaudhuri

A CubeSat with a prototype scintillating detector with a sensitive volume of GAGG crystal is being developed with a possible launch date of 2025. Its purpose is to characterize the background signals that mimic the neutrino interaction that…

Background: In vivo dosimetry is essential for treatment verification in modern radiotherapy, but existing techniques are limited by spatiotemporal resolution and performance on non-uniform anatomy. Scintillation imaging dosimetry shows…

The GERDA experiment searches for the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{76}$Ge in order to probe whether the neutrino is a Majorana particle and to shed light on the neutrino mass ordering. For investigating such a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-11 Nuno Barros , Alexander R. Domula , Björn Lehnert , Birgit Zatschler , Kai Zuber

A novel modular high-resolution charged-particle tracking detector design using $250\mu m$ diameter, round, scintillating fibers and SiPM arrays for readout is presented. The fiber modules consist of 8 layers of 128 fibers, mechanically sta…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Henning Gast , Thomas Kirn , Gregorio Roper Yearwood , Stefan Schael

The new EU Council Directive 2013/51/Euratom of 22 October 2013 introduced limits for the content of 222Rn in drinking water. Radon analysis in water requires a lengthy task of collection, storage, transport and subsequent measurement in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-09 Santiago Celaya , Ismael Fuente , Luis Quindos , Carlos Sainz

In a neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) experiment, energy resolution is important to distinguish between $0\nu\beta\beta$ and background events. CAlcium fluoride for studies of Neutrino and Dark matters by Low Energy…

NEXT is a new experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a 100 kg radio-pure high-pressure gaseous xenon TPC. The detector requires excellent energy resolution, which can be achieved in a Xe TPC with electroluminescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 L. M. P. Fernandes , E. D. C. Freitas , M. Ball , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , C. M. B. Monteiro , N. Yahlali , D. Nygren , J. M. F. dos Santos

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 Juha Peltoniemi

The detection of primary scintillation light in combination with the charge or secondary scintillation signals is an efficient technique to determine the events t=0 as well as particle / photon separation in large mass TPC detectors filled…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Periale , V. Peskov , P. Carlson , T. Francke , P. Pavlopoulos , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo

Barium fluoride (BaF$_2$) crystal scintillators are promising detectors to search for double beta decay processes in $^{130}$Ba ($Q_{2{\beta}}$ = 2619(3) keV) and $^{132}$Ba ($Q_{2{\beta}}$ = 844(1) keV). The $^{130}$Ba isotope is of…

To investigate the 1.6 GeV high-energy proton beam detector utilized in the CSNS Phase-II upgrade project, a plastic scintillator detector presents a viable option due to its superior radiation hardness. This study investigates the effects…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-11 Yue Zhang , Ruirui Fan , Yuhong Yu , Hantao Jing , Zhixin Tan , Yuhang Guo , You Lv

The recent development of Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS), and the concurrent development of high-efficiency and high-precision-timing light sensors, has opened up the possibility for a new kind of large-scale detector capable of a…