A new water-based liquid scintillator and potential applications

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

Volumn 660, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-56

  Yeh, M ^a   Hans, S ^a   Beriguete, W ^a   Rosero, R ^a   Hu, L ^a   Hahn, R L ^a   Diwan, M V ^a   Jaffe, D E ^a   Kettell, S H ^a   Littenberg, L ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neutrino oscillations; Neutron tagging; Proton decay; Water loaded liquid scintillator

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; NEUTRINO PHYSICS; NEUTRON DETECTION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROTON DECAY; WATER BASED; WATER-LOADED LIQUID SCINTILLATOR;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; SCINTILLATION;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 80255123288     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.08.040     Document Type: Article

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