Development and mass production of a mixture of LAB- and DIN-based gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator for the NEOS short-baseline neutrino experiment

  • Ba Ro Kim
  • , Boyoung Han
  • , Eunju Jeon
  • , Kyung Kwang Joo
  • , H. J. Kim
  • , Hyunsoo Kim
  • , Jinyu Kim
  • , Yeongduk Kim
  • , Youngju Ko
  • , Jaison Lee
  • , Jooyoung Lee
  • , Moo Hyun Lee
  • , Yoomin Oh
  • , Hyangkyu Park
  • , Kang soon Park
  • , Kyungmin Seo
  • , Gwang Min Seon
  • , Kim Siyeon

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Abstract

A new experiment, called the NEutrino Oscillation at Short baseline (NEOS), is proposed on the site of Hanbit Reactors at Yonggwang, South Korea, to investigate a reactor antineutrino anomaly. The homogeneous NEOS detector having a 1000-l target volume was constructed and deployed at the tendon gallery 25 m away from the reactor core. The NEOS detector employs a linear alkylbenzene (LAB) based gadolinium loaded liquid scintillator with 10 % di-isopropylnaphthalene (DIN) based liquid scintillator to improve the particle identification via pulse shape discrimination. In this paper, we report the procedure for the mass production of the Gd-loaded scintillator for the NEOS detector.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)311-316
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume310
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • Base organic solvent
  • DIN
  • Gadolinium (Gd)
  • LAB
  • Liquid scintillator
  • Neutrino
  • Optical properties

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