Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Temporal characteristics of light collection in the liquid scintillation counter with a volume of 1.5 m3 and quasi-mirror reflection

  • Nuclear Experimental Technique
  • Published:
Instruments and Experimental Techniques Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The temporal behavior of light collection in the 1.5-m3-volume mirror-reflecting counter filled with a highly transmitting liquid scintillator has been investigated. Using the Monte Carlo method and assuming that the luminescence decay time of the liquid scintillator is zero (τLS = 0), it has been ascertained that, in the case of a short flash in a counter, the exponential phase of light collection is characterized by time τcol = 15.0 ± 1.7 ns, which is does not depend on scattering of light in the medium. The measured exponent index τact = 37 ± 3 ns of an actual pulse due to a muon is determined both by light collection time τcol ≈ 15 ns and luminescence decay time τLS ≈ 20 ns of the scintillator in the large-volume counter.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Agafonova, N.Yu., Boyarkin, V.V., and Mal’gin, A.S., Prib. Tekh. Eksp., 2010, no. 1, p. 52 [Instrum. Exp. Tech. (Engl. Transl.), no. 1, p. 45].

  2. Aglietta, M., Alpat, B., and Alyea, E.D., Izv. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Fiz., 1993, vol. 57, p. 127.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Voevodskii, A.V., Dadykin, V.L., and Ryazhskaya, O.G., Prib. Tekh. Eksp., 1970, no. 1, p. 143.

  4. Agafonova, N.Yu., Boyarkin, V.V., and Mal’gin, A.S., Preprint of Inst. for Nucl. Res., Russ. Acad. Sci., Moscow, 2008, no. 1203/2008.

  5. Meiling, W. and Stary, F., Nanosecond Pulse Tech- niques, New York: Gordon & Breach, 1968. Translated under the title Nanosekundnaya impul’snaya tekhnika, Moscow: Atomizdat, 1973, p. 383.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Vikhrov, V.V., Gusel’nikov, V.S., Kosarev, A.S., et al., Preprint of Leningrad Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Leningrad, 1976, no. 281.

  7. Vasil’ev, V.A., Dranevich, V.A., and Pavlovskii, S.E., Neitrinnaya astrofizika (Neutrino Astrophysics), Leningrad: FTI AN SSSR, 1990, p. 113.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Shestidesyatiletiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    N. Yu. Agafonova, V. V. Boyarkin & A. S. Mal’gin

Authors
  1. N. Yu. Agafonova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. V. V. Boyarkin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. S. Mal’gin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Original Russian Text © N.Yu. Agafonova, V.V. Boyarkin, A.S. Mal’gin, 2010, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2010, No. 6, pp. 29–33.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Agafonova, N.Y., Boyarkin, V.V. & Mal’gin, A.S. Temporal characteristics of light collection in the liquid scintillation counter with a volume of 1.5 m3 and quasi-mirror reflection. Instrum Exp Tech 53, 800–804 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441210060060

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441210060060

Keywords

Search

Navigation