1. Use of poly(ethylene naphthalate) as a self-vetoing structural material
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C. Hayward, Daniel Muenstermann, R. Hodák, R. Pjatkan, Lukas Fajt, F. Fischer, Yu. Efremenko, Markus Stommel, E. Öz, R. Rouhana, Michael Febbraro, T. M. G. Kraetzschmar, D. C. Radford, M. Pohl, O. Schulz, Elena Sala, I. Stekl, and Bela Majorovits
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History ,Ethylene ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Poly(ethylene naphthalate) ,Materials science ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Scintillator ,01 natural sciences ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Education ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,0103 physical sciences ,Instrumentation ,Mathematical Physics ,High potential ,Scintillation ,Structural material ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,Computer Science Applications ,Polyester ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Optoelectronics ,business - Abstract
The discovery of scintillation in the blue regime from polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), a commonly used high-performance industrial polyester plastic, has sparked considerable interest from the physics community as a new type of plastic scintillator material. This observation in addition to its good mechanical and radiopurity properties makes PEN an attractive candidate as an active structure scintillator for low-background physics experiments. This paper reports on investigations of its potential in terms of production tests of custom made tiles and various scintillation light output measurements. These investigations substantiate the high potential of usage of PEN in low-background experiments.
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- 2020
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