Development of a gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator for solar neutrino detection and neutron measurements

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 522, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 439-446

  Lightfoot, P K ^a   Kudryavtsev, V A ^a   Spooner, N J C ^a   Liubarsky, I ^b   Luscher, R ^c   Smith, N J T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gadolinium loaded liquid scintillator; Neutron detection; Solar neutrino detector

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; GAS DETECTORS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SCINTILLATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; TOLUENE;

GADOLINIUM-LOADED LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; NEUTRON DETECTION; SOLAR NEUTRINO DETECTOR;

GADOLINIUM;

EID: 1842762155     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.390     Document Type: Article

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