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Liquid Scintillator R&D

FLS: Fiber in Liquid Scintillator

Reflectance Curves

The reflectance curves for a variety of plastics (and Bicron's reflective paint as a standard) have been measured. These are plotted with the emission spectra of two scintillator types as overlays (scaled to an arbitrary height). The Bicron 517 scintillator is the current favorite; the 404 scintillator was represented to me (RWH) as more typical of solid scintillators but possible in a liquid. Obviously the shift to shorter wavelengths is not particularly effective in the the proposed configuration due to the steep cut-off in R below 420 nm.

The same curves are shown zoomed in to the relevant region. The scale is restricted to R>75% and the wavelength range where the Bicron 517 emission is >20% of its maximum value (402-474nm).

The waveshifting fiber absorption (blue) and re-emission (green) spectra for Bicron 91a and Bicron 92 fibers is plotted from numbers taken from a similar plot in the Bicron literature. Again the scintillator emission spectra are shown for comparision.

Light Collection Efficiency

RWH has a Monte Carlo that simulates many of the effects involved with light collection for the FLS system for different configurations of the elements. Results from this MC
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Last modified: Mon May 13 17:18:18 1996