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- Title
Feasibility Study of an Alcohol-Based Liquid Scintillation Detector and Its Application.
- Authors
Kim, Byoung Chan; Choi, Ji Young; Joo, Kyung Kwang; Park, Seon Yeong; Song, Ye Sung; Woo, Hee Jin
- Abstract
This paper proposes a new base material, a mixture of alcohol and water, for liquid scintillators. A possibility of using alcohol as a new detection solution in a particle detector is described. A liquid scintillator is widely used in various fields because of its high light yield. In addition, it is very important to develop a stable liquid scintillator for particle detectors or other medical applications. To date, there have been no previous R&D studies elsewhere for the use of alcohol in particle detectors, and no market products are available of this type. Thus, there is a room for improvement. This paper describes the brief synthesizing process of the alcohol-based liquid scintillator by varying the mixing ratio of each component that makes up the liquid scintillator. The several feasible physical and optical properties of an alcohol-based liquid scintillator were investigated and presented. Finally, as one of its applications, a range (beam-path length) measurement using an electron beam in medical physics is introduced after irradiating an alcohol-based liquid scintillator with electron beam energies of 6~12 MeV. The measurement results were compared with a Monte Carlo simulation, Novalis Tx, a phantom, and a CT image. In the near future, the new alcohol-based liquid scintillator could be used for particle detector or medical imaging applications.
- Subjects
SCINTILLATION counters; LIQUID scintillators; PARTICLE detectors; ELECTRON beams; COMPUTED tomography; SCINTILLATORS; MONTE Carlo method
- Publication
Advances in High Energy Physics, 2021, p1
- ISSN
1687-7357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2021/6672655