Development of Neon As a Scintillator For Solar Neutrino Detection

开发氖作为太阳中微子探测闪烁体

• 批准号: 0226142
• 负责人: Daniel McKinsey
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0226142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Neon; Scintillator; Solar; Neutrino

Funds from this award will support exploratory research for the rapiddevelopment of novel cryogenic scintillators. This project has specialurgency because of the potential broad application of thesescintillators to a variety of established research topics, such as theobservation of low energy solar neutrinos and the detection of cosmicdark matter. If these scintillators work as well as expected, theimpact of this work on the field of non-accelerator particle physicswould be profound and immediate. The proposed cryogenic scintillatorwould consist of liquid or solid neon, possibly doped with a smallamount (1%) of xenon. Condensed neon holds special promise forlow-background measurements, but its scintillation yield and opticalproperties have received scant attention in the past.

该奖项的资金将用于支持快速开发新型低温制冷器的探索性研究。 这个项目具有特殊的紧迫性，因为闪烁体的潜在广泛应用于各种既定的研究课题，如低能太阳中微子的观测和宇宙暗物质的探测。 如果这些加速器像预期的那样工作，这项工作对非加速器粒子物理学领域的影响将是深远而直接的。 提议的低温蒸发器将由液体或固体氖组成，可能掺杂少量（1%）氙。 凝聚态氖在低本底测量方面有着特殊的前景，但它的闪烁产额和光学性质在过去很少受到关注。