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Laboratory studies on the removal of radon-born lead from KamLAND's organic liquid scintillator

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 (United States)
  • 2. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8583 (Japan)
  • 3. Research Center for Neutrino Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578 (Japan)
  • 4. W.K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
  • 5. Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 (United States)
  • 6. Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 (United States)
  • 7. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (United States)
  • 8. Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)

Description

The removal of radioactivity from liquid scintillator has been studied in preparation of a low background phase of KamLAND. This paper describes the methods and techniques developed to measure and efficiently extract radon decay products from liquid scintillator. We report the radio-isotope reduction factors obtained when applying various extraction methods. During this study, distillation was identified as the most efficient method for removing radon-born lead from liquid scintillator

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.050

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.050;
PII
S0168-9002(14)01078-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
769
Journal Page Range
p. 79-87
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
46125444
Subject category
S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
DAUGHTER PRODUCTS; DISTILLATION; EXTRACTION; LEAD; LIQUID SCINTILLATORS; PURIFICATION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADON; REDUCTION; REMOVAL; SOLAR NEUTRINOS
Descriptors DEC
CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; FLUIDS; GASES; ISOTOPES; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; METALS; NEUTRINOS; NONMETALS; PHOSPHORS; RADIATIONS; RARE GASES; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLAR PARTICLES; SOLAR RADIATION; STELLAR RADIATION

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