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24 April 2024

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Quenching Factor for Low Energy Nuclear Recoils in a Plastic Scintillator
L. Reichhart ; D. Yu. Akimov ; H. M. Araujo ; E. J. Barnes ; V. A. Belov ; A. A. Burenkov ; V. Chepel ; A. Currie ; L. DeViveiros ; B. Edwards ; V. Francis ; C. Ghag ; A. Hollingsworth ; M. Horn ; G.E. Kalmus ; A.S. Kobyakin ; A.G. Kovalenko ; V.N. Lebedenko ; A. Lindote ; M. I. Lopes ; R. Luscher ; P. Majewski ; A. St J. Murphy ; F. Neves ; S. M. Paling ; J. Pinto da Cunha ; R. Preece ; J. J. Quenby ; P. R. Scovell ; C. Silva ; V. N. Solovov ; N. J. T. Smith ; P. F. Smith ; V. N. Stekhanov ; T. J. Sumner ; C. Thorne ; R. J. Walker ;
Date:	9 Nov 2011
Abstract:	Plastic scintillators are widely used in industry, medicine and scientific research, including nuclear and particle physics. Although one of their most common applications is in neutron detection, experimental data on their response to low-energy nuclear recoils are scarce. Here, the relative scintillation efficiency for neutron-induced nuclear recoils in a polystyrene-based plastic scintillator (UPS-923A) is presented, exploring recoil energies between 125 keV and 850 keV. Monte Carlo simulations, incorporating light collection efficiency and energy resolution effects, are used to generate neutron scattering spectra which are matched to observed distributions of scintillation signals to parameterise the energy-dependent quenching factor. At energies above 300 keV the dependence is reasonably described using the semi-empirical formulation of Birks and a kB factor of (0.014+/-0.002) g/MeVcm^2 has been determined. Below that energy the measured quenching factor falls more steeply than predicted by the Birks formalism.
Source:	arXiv, 1111.2248
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