First measurement of the surface tension of a liquid scintillator based on Linear Alkylbenzene (HYBLENE 113). (1st May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alt, J.; Arutinov, D.; Bezshyyko, O.; Bretz, T.; Brignoli, A.; Conaboy, A.; Deucher, P.; De Paola, F.; del Giudice, G.; di Cristo, C.; Fecarotta, O.; Fiorillo, A.; Fischer, H.; Glückler, H.; Grewing, C.; Hollnagel, A.; Lacker, H.; Miano, A.; Natour, G.; Orlov, V.; Prota, A.; Rehbein, F.; Reghunath, A.; Salzano, A.; Schaaf, M.; Scharf, C.; Schmidt, J.; Schumann, M.; Vagts, A.; van Waasen, S.; Wurm, M.;
• Is Part Of: Journal of instrumentation. Volume 17:Number 5(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-05-01
• Subjects: Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators) -- Scintillators and scintillating fibres and light guides -- Particle detectors -- Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Periodicals; 502.84
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/T05012
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1748-0221

Abstract

Abstract: We measured the surface tension of linear alkylbenzene (LAB) HYBLENE 113 mixed with Diphenyloxazole (PPO) as well as of pure LAB HYBLENE 113 as part of material studies for the liquid-scintillator based surround background tagger (SBT) in the proposed SHiP experiment. The measurement was performed using the iron wire method and the surface tension for linear alkyl benzene HYBLENE 113 plus PPO was found to be (30.0 ± 0.6) mN/m 22.0 ± 0.5°C and for pure HYBLENE 113, (29.2 ± 0.6) mN/m at 21.0 ± 0.5°C.