Liquid Organic Scintillator Detectors for Nuclear Material Monitoring
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2009鈥�10
The joint Physics/Engineering project sponsored by LLNL aims to research a potential organic scintillator for use in an antineutrino detector.卢鈥� Such a detector must have neutron-gamma discrimination capabilities, and the HMC team will test those capabilities for various cell dimensions and reflectivity levels.卢鈥� The team will also investigate the relative efficacy of two different algorithms for discriminating between neutron and gamma events.卢鈥犅�� The result of the team鈥榮 research will inform the direction of LLNL鈥榮 next antineutrino detector.
Advisor(s): Richard Campbell Haskell.
Team: Yoichi Sagawa ’11, Roger A. Billingsley ’10, Chen K. Lim ’10, Alex N. Steinkamp ’10, and Steven F. Ning ’10.