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

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Authors
  • G. Keefer
  • C. Grant
  • A. Piepke
  • T. Ebihara
  • H. Ikeda
  • Y. Kishimoto
  • Y. Kibe
  • Y. Koseki
  • M. Ogawa
  • J. Shirai
  • S. Takeuchi
  • C. Mauger
  • C. Zhang
  • G. Schweitzer
  • B.E. Berger
  • S. Dazeley
  • M.P. Decowski
  • J.A. Detwiler
  • Z. Djurcic
  • D.A. Dwyer
  • Y. Efremenko
  • S. Enomoto
  • S.J. Freedman
  • B.K. Fujikawa
  • K. Furuno
  • A. Gando
  • Y. Gando
  • G. Gratta
  • S. Hatakeyama
  • K.M. Heeger
  • L. Hsu
  • K. Ichimura
  • K. Inoue
  • T. Iwamoto
  • Y. Kamyshkov
  • H.J. Karwowski
  • M. Koga
  • A. Kozlov
  • C.E. Lane
  • J.G. Learned
  • J. Maricic
  • D.M. Markoff
  • S. Matsuno
  • D. McKee
  • R.D. McKeown
  • T. Miletic
  • T. Mitsui
  • M. Motoki
  • K. Nakajima
  • K. Nakajima
  • K. Nakamura
  • T. O'Donnell
  • S. Ogawa
  • F. Piquemal
  • J.-S. Ricol
  • I. Shimizu
  • F. Suekane
  • A. Suzuki
  • R. Svoboda
  • O. Tajima
  • Y. Takemoto
  • K. Tamae
  • K. Tolich
  • W. Tornow
  • H. Watanabe
  • H. Watanabe
  • L.A. Winslow
  • S. Yoshida
Publication date 01-01-2015
Journal Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume | Issue number 769
Pages (from-to) 79-87
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract 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.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.050
Published at https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0977
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84908537776
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