Pulse shape discrimination capability of metal-loaded organic liquid scintillators for a short-baseline reactor neutrino experiment

B. R. Kim; B. Y. Han; E. J. Jeon; K. K. Joo; Jeongsoo Kang; N. Khan; H. J. Kim; Hyunsoo Kim; J. Y. Kim; Kim Siyeon; S. C. Kim; Yeongduk Kim; Y. J. Ko; Jaison Lee; Jeong Yeon Lee; J. Y. Lee; K. J. Ma; Hyeonseo Park; H. K. Park; K. S. Park; K. M. Seo; Gwang Min Seon; I. S. Yeo; K. M. Yeo

doi:10.1088/0031-8949/90/5/055302

Pulse shape discrimination capability of metal-loaded organic liquid scintillators for a short-baseline reactor neutrino experiment

B. R. Kim, B. Y. Han, E. J. Jeon, K. K. Joo, Jeongsoo Kang, N. Khan, H. J. Kim, Hyunsoo Kim, J. Y. Kim, Kim Siyeon, S. C. Kim, Yeongduk Kim, Y. J. Ko, Jaison Lee, Jeong Yeon Lee, J. Y. Lee, K. J. Ma, Hyeonseo Park, H. K. Park, K. S. ParkK. M. Seo, Gwang Min Seon, I. S. Yeo, K. M. Yeo

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A new short-baseline (SBL) reactor neutrino experiment is proposed to investigate a reactor anti-neutrino anomaly. A liquid scintillator (LS) is used to detect anti-neutrinos emitted from a Hanaro reactor, and the pulse shape discrimination (PSD) ability of the metal-loaded organic LSs is evaluated on small-scale laboratory samples. PSD can be affected by selecting different base solvents, and several of the LSs used two different organic base solvents, such as linear alkyl benzene and di-isopropylnaphthalene. For the metallic content, gadolinium (Gd) or lithium (⁶Li) was loaded into a home-made organic LS and into a commercially available liquid scintillation cocktail. A feasibility study was performed for the PSD using several different liquid scintillation cocktails. In this work, the preparation and the PSD characteristics of a promising candidate, which will be used in an above-ground environment, are summarized and presented.

Original language	English
Article number	055302
Journal	Physica Scripta
Volume	90
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/90/5/055302
State	Published - 1 May 2015

Keywords

gadolinium
liquid scintillator
lithium
pulse shape discriminaton
reactor neutrino

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Kim, B. R., Han, B. Y., Jeon, E. J., Joo, K. K., Kang, J., Khan, N., Kim, H. J., Kim, H., Kim, J. Y., Siyeon, K., Kim, S. C., Kim, Y., Ko, Y. J., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, J. Y., Ma, K. J., Park, H., Park, H. K., ... Yeo, K. M. (2015). Pulse shape discrimination capability of metal-loaded organic liquid scintillators for a short-baseline reactor neutrino experiment. Physica Scripta, 90(5), Article 055302. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/90/5/055302

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Pulse shape discrimination capability of metal-loaded organic liquid scintillators for a short-baseline reactor neutrino experiment

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