There is rising interest in organic scintillators with low scattering length for future neutrino detectors. Therefore, a new scintillator system was developed based on admixtures of paraffin wax in linear alkyl benzene. The transparency and viscosity of this gel-like material can be tuned by temperature adjustment. Whereas it is a colorless transparent liquid at temperatures around 40C it has a milky wax structure below 20C. The production and properties of such a scintillator as well as its advantages compared to transparent liquids are described.
@article{arxiv.1908.03334,
title = {Novel Opaque Scintillator for Neutrino Detection},
author = {Christian Buck and Benjamin Gramlich and Stefan Schoppmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.03334},
year = {2019}
}