Light yield of Perovskite nanocrystal-doped liquid scintillator
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Author(s)
Graham, E
Gooding, D
Gruszko, J
Grant, C
Naranjo, B
Winslow, L
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Journal of Instrumentation
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IOP Publishing
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Original manuscript
Abstract
© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. Future generations of liquid scintillator neutrino experiments will require stably loading tons of candidate isotopes into kiloton-scale detectors while controlling the scintillator's optical properties. Nanoparticles' unique structural properties allow them to be used as highly-tunable wavelength shifters, which can be used to enhance double beta decay detection and background discrimination. Additionally, these nanoparticles can be made with double beta decay isotopes, which offers a promising method for isotope loading. Perovskite nanocrystals are particularly attractive due to the reliability of their crystal structure and their easily-scalable synthesis. We present here the first study of lead-based perovskite nanocrystals in a liquid scintillator experiment, demonstrating their properties as wavelength shifters and the scintillator cocktail's behavior under increasing nanocrystal mass-loading.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/11/P11024
