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Measuring the 14C isotope concentration in a liquid organic scintillator at a small-volume setup

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A low-background scintillation setup situated in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory is described. The facility is composed of nine identical cells, each 2 L in volume. The 14C content of a PXE-based scintillator has been measured using this setup; the value obtained is R(14C/12C) = (12.6 ± 0.4) × 10−18. This result can be used for comprehensive investigation of possible 14C production channels in organic scintillators.

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  1. Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik Saupfercheckweg, 1, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    C. Buck, F. X. Hartmann, D. Motta, S. Schoenert & U. Schwan

  2. CEA (Commissariat a l’energie atomique)/Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    O. Besida & Th. Lasserre

  3. Laboratory Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), S.S.17bis km, 18.910, I-67010, Assergy (AQ), Italy

    C. M. Cattadori, A. di Vacri & L. Pandola

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

    I. R. Barabanov, L. B. Bezrukov & E. A. Yanovich

  5. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 31, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © C. Buck, O. Besida, C.M. Cattadori, F.X. Hartmann, Th. Lasserre, D. Motta, A. di Vacri, L. Pandola, S. Schoenert, U. Schwan, I.R. Barabanov, L.B. Bezrukov, N.A. Danilov, E.A. Yanovich, 2012, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2012, No. 1, pp. 40–43.

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Buck, C., Besida, O., Cattadori, C.M. et al. Measuring the 14C isotope concentration in a liquid organic scintillator at a small-volume setup. Instrum Exp Tech 55, 34–37 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441212010022

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