Fluorescence decay-time constants in organic liquid scintillators

Rev Sci Instrum. 2009 Apr;80(4):043301. doi: 10.1063/1.3112609.

Abstract

The fluorescence decay-time constants have been measured for several scintillator mixtures based on phenyl-o-xylylethane (PXE) and linear alkylbenzene (LAB) solvents. The resulting values are of relevance for the physics performance of the proposed large-volume liquid scintillator detector Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy (LENA). In particular, the impact of the measured values to the search for proton decay via p-->K(+)nu is evaluated in this work.