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Lithium-loaded Liquid Scintillator Production for the PROSPECT experiment

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Author(s)

Hans Pieter Mumm, Denis E. Bergeron, Mark Tyra, Svetlana Nour, Jerome LaRosa

Abstract

This work reports the production and characterization of lithium-loaded liquid scintillators (LiLS) for the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT). Fifty-nine 90 L batches of LiLS (6Li mass fraction 0.082%0.001%) were produced and samples from all batches were characterized by measuring their optical absorbance relative to air, light yield relative to a pure liquid scintillator reference, and pulse shape discrimination capability. Fifty-seven batches passed the quality assurance criteria and were used for detector filling.
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Journal of Instrumentation
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Journals

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https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/03/P03026
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Keywords

Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), Neutrino detectors, Neutron detectors (cold, thermal, fast neutrons), Liquid detectors
Physics, Nuclear physics and Neutron research

Citation

, H. , , D. , Tyra, M. , Nour, S. and LaRosa, J. (2019), Lithium-loaded Liquid Scintillator Production for the PROSPECT experiment, Journal of Instrumentation, [online], https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/03/P03026, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=927275 (Accessed October 22, 2025)

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Created March 26, 2019, Updated May 3, 2021
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