Study of scintillation, fluorescence and scattering in mineral oil for the MiniBooNE neutrino detector

Author

Brown, Bruce C. ; Brice, Stephen ; Hawker, Eric ; Maza, Shannon ; Meyer, Hans-Otto ; Pla-Dalmau, Anna ; Tayloe, Rex ; Tanaka, Hirohisa A. ; Toptygin, Dmitri

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

16-22 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

652

Abstract

The MiniBooNE neutrino detector at Fermilab (FNAL) is filled with 250,000 gallons of pure mineral oil. The principal signal for MiniBooNE is light observed in a prompt Cherenkov cone. Scattering and fluorescence modify our detection of this light. Scintillation is also created by ionization in the oil. Studies of fluorescence of this oil have been carried out over a wide spectrum of excited light and time resolved fluorescence with a narrower range of excitation. Polarized scattering measurements have been carried out at longer wavelengths. Time resolved and spectrally resolved scintillation has been studied with a 200 MeV proton beam at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. Results of these studies will be reported.

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; neutrino detection; scintillation counters; 200 MeV; MiniBooNE neutrino detector; excitation; ionization; mineral oil; polarized scattering; prompt Cherenkov cone; proton beam; spectrally resolved scintillation; time resolved fluorescence; time resolved scintillation; Fluorescence; Ionization; Light scattering; Minerals; Neutrino sources; Optical polarization; Petroleum; Signal resolution; Solid scintillation detectors; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8700-7

Electronic_ISBN

1082-3654

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462277

Filename

1462277