Liquid Organic Scintillator Detectors for Nuclear Material Monitoring

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2009–10

The joint Physics/Engineering project sponsored by LLNL aims to research a potential organic scintillator for use in an antineutrino detector.¬† Such a detector must have neutron-gamma discrimination capabilities, and the HMC team will test those capabilities for various cell dimensions and reflectivity levels.¬† The team will also investigate the relative efficacy of two different algorithms for discriminating between neutron and gamma events.¬†¬† The result of the team‘s research will inform the direction of LLNL‘s 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.