Speaker
Shengchao Li
(Virginia Tech)
Description
MicroCHANDLER is a prototype detector for surface-level reactor antineutrino detection made with plastic scintillator cubes (EJ-260). We measured the proton quenching effect in the scintillator with neutron beams of 5-27 MeV at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). We extracted the Birks' constants from our data. This result improves the energy non-linearity modeling of plastic scintillator detectors in an unprecedented energy range. In addition, the updated energy response function for recoil protons will lead to an improved modeling of fast neutrons, which is needed to optimize the shielding design.
Mini-abstract
Proton quenching is measured in a prototype neutrino detector with neutron beams.
Primary author
Shengchao Li
(Virginia Tech)
Co-authors
Prof.
Alireza Haghighat
(Virginia Tech)
Mr
Connor Awe
(Duke University)
Jacob Steenis
(Grinnell College)
Jay Runge
(Duke University)
Prof.
Jonathan Link
(Virginia Tech)
Keegan Walkup
(Virginia Tech)
Prof.
Phillip Barbeau
(Duke University)
Samuel Hedges
(Duke University)
Mr
Tulasi Subedi
(Virginia Tech)
Tyler Johnson
(Duke University)
Valerio Mascolino
(Virginia Tech)