Extruded plastic scintillator for MINERvA

An extrusion line has recently been installed at Fermilab in collaboration with NICADD (Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator and Detector Development). This new facility will serve to further develop and improve extruded plastic scintillator. Since polystyrene is widely used in the consumer indu...

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Published inIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2005 Vol. 3; pp. 1298 - 1300
Main Authors Pla-Dalmau, A., Bross, A.D., Rykalin, V.V., Wood, B.M.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Attenuation measurement
Collaboration
Detectors
Laboratories
Length measurement
Neutrino sources
Optical attenuators
Plastics
Strips
Testing
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Summary:An extrusion line has recently been installed at Fermilab in collaboration with NICADD (Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator and Detector Development). This new facility will serve to further develop and improve extruded plastic scintillator. Since polystyrene is widely used in the consumer industry, the logical path was to investigate the extrusion of commercial-grade polystyrene pellets with dopants to yield high quality plastic scintillator. The D0 and MINOS experiments are already using extruded scintillator strips in their detectors. A new experiment at Fermilab is pursuing the use of extruded plastic scintillator. A new plastic scintillator strip is being tested and its properties characterized. The initial results are presented here.
ISBN:0780392213
9780780392212
ISSN:1082-3654
2577-0829
DOI:10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596558