The Borexino scintillator and solvent procurement Marco Giammarchi International Journal of Modern Physics A Vol. 29, No. 16, 1442007 (2014) SPECIAL ISSUE – Technologies of the Borexino Experiment doi: 10.1142/S0217751X1442007X [local copy] Abstract The Borexino experiment for solar neutrino physics
The scintillator solvent procurement for the Borexino solar neutrino detector
The scintillator solvent procurement for the Borexino solar neutrino detector M.G. Giammarchi, P.L. Gandolfo, P. Lombardi, L. Miramonti, F. Ortica, S. Parmeggiano, A. Romani, C. Salvo, P. Tronci NIM-A Volume 648, Issue 1, 21 August 2011, Pages 100-108 Abstract This paper
PC procurement completed
PC procurement at Sarroch completed Borexino use a solution of PPO (a flour) in PC (pseudocumene, an organic solvent) as its scintillator (active detector mass) and a solution of DMP (a quencher) in the same solvent as a buffer fluid