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Production of a gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator for the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment

Beriguete, Wanda;
Cao, Jun;
Ding, Yayun;
Hans, Sunej;
Heeger, Karsten M;
Hu, Liangming;
Huang, Aizhong;
Luk, Kam-Biu;
Nemchenok, Igor;
Qi, Ming;
Rosero, Richard;
Sun, Hansheng;
Wang, Ruiguang;
Wang, Yifang;
Wen, Liangjian;
Yang, Yi;
Yeh, Minfang;
Zhang, Zhiyong;
Zhou, Li

UC Berkeley Previously Published Works (2014)

We report on the production and characterization of liquid scintillators for the detection of electron antineutrinos by the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment. A 185 tons of gadolinium-loaded (0.1% by mass) liquid scintillator (Gd-LS) and a 200 tons of unloaded liquid scintillator (LS) were successfully produced from a linear-alkylbenzene (LAB) solvent in 6 months. The scintillator properties, the production and purification systems, and the quality assurance and control (QA/QC) procedures are described. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.

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