High-speed liquid scintillator techniques for calorimetry and triggering

Author

Hurlbut, C.R. ; Moser, W. ; Flournoy, J. ; Winn, D.R. ; LaPierre, C. ; Whitmore, M.

Author_Institution

Bicron Inc., Newbury, OH, USA

Volume

37

Issue

3

fYear

1990

fDate

6/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1176

Lastpage

1181

Abstract

Liquid scintillators with nanosecond temporal properties may be desired for Superconducting Super Collider/Large Hadron Collider high-luminosity calorimetry and triggering. The temporal characteristics of liquid scintillators have been improved with the addition of quenchers for solvent/fluor systems which optimize the Forster transfer, suppressing the triplet states and radiative decay of the solvent. General liquid scintillator property optimization for high-rate calorimetric and trigger counter properties, especially in terms of the hydrogen content, is briefly discussed. Present tests of new hydrogen-free liquid scintillators are presented

Keywords

calorimeters; scintillation counters; 1 ns; Forster transfer; H content; LHC; Large Hadron Collider; SSC; Superconducting Super Collider; calorimetry; high speed liquid scintillator techniques; solvent/fluor systems; trigger counter; triggering; Absorption; Calorimetry; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Hydrogen; Large Hadron Collider; Plastics; Radiation detectors; Solvents; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.57362

Filename

57362