Characterizing quantum-dot-doped liquid scintillator for applications to neutrino detectors

Winslow, L. A.; Simpson, Raspberry

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/7/07/p07010

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“…Properties of candidate QD samples have been previously reported [9]. These results demonstrated that QDs are promising candidates which benefit further study.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…The idea to do direction reconstruction of charged particles in liquid scintillators is described elsewhere [9, 15]. Here, we note that QDs provide an interesting possibility of tuning the scintillation light such that the emission is at shorter wavelengths.…”

Section: Requirements For Liquid Scintillatorsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…These samples have emission and absorption spectra which are on the low end of commercially available QDs. This is beneficial for direction reconstruction of charged particles in liquid scintillators (see discussion above and [9, 15]). The attenuation length of the CdS380 samples are initially below one meter for wavelengths smaller than 550 nm.…”

Section: Attenuation Length Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Optical properties of quantum-dot-doped liquid scintillators

Aberle¹,

Li²,

Weiss³

et al. 2013

J. Inst.

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Semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum dots) were studied in the context of liquid scintillator development for upcoming neutrino experiments. The unique optical and chemical properties of quantum dots are particularly promising for the use in neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. Liquid scintillators for large scale neutrino detectors have to meet specific requirements which are reviewed, highlighting the peculiarities of quantum-dot-doping. In this paper, we report results on laboratory-scale measurements of the attenuation length and the fluorescence properties of three commercial quantum dot samples. The results include absorbance and emission stability measurements, improvement in transparency due to filtering of the quantum dot samples, precipitation tests to isolate the quantum dots from solution and energy transfer studies with quantum dots and the fluorophore PPO.

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“…Properties of candidate QD samples have been previously reported [9]. These results demonstrated that QDs are promising candidates which benefit further study.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 61%

Section: Requirements For Liquid Scintillatorsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Attenuation Length Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Optical properties of quantum-dot-doped liquid scintillators

Aberle¹,

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Weiss³

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J. Inst.

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“…In addition, high-temperature superconductivity has been induced in Bi 2 Se 3 flakes and films by interfacing with a cuprate superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ (Wang et al, 2013.;Zareapour et al, 2012). Very recently, evidence for MZMs has been reported in the cores of magnetic vortices in a thin film of Bi 2 Te 3 grown on the surface of a conventional superconductor NbSe 2 (Xu et al, 2014). Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy some features consistent with the theoretical prediction for the Fu-Kane model (Chiu et al, 2011) have been observed.…”

Section: D Systemsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Colloquium: Majorana fermions in nuclear, particle, and solid-state physics

Elliott¹,

Franz²

2015

Rev. Mod. Phys.

842

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Ettore Majorana (1906Majorana ( -1938 disappeared while traveling by ship from Palermo to Naples in 1938. His fate has never been fully resolved and several articles have been written that explore the mystery itself. His demise intrigues us still today because of his seminal work, published the previous year, that established symmetric solutions to the Dirac equation that describe a fermionic particle that is its own anti-particle. This work has long had a significant impact in neutrino physics, where this fundamental question regarding the particle remains unanswered. But the formalism he developed has found many uses as there are now a number of candidate spin-1 2 neutral particles that may be truly neutral with no quantum number to distinguish them from their anti-particles. If such particles exist, they will influence many areas of nuclear and particle physics. Most notably the process of neutrinoless double beta decay can only exist if neutrinos are massive Majorana particles. Hence, many efforts to search for this process are underway. Majorana's influence doesn't stop with particle physics, however, even though that was his original consideration. The equations he derived also arise in solid state physics where they describe electronic states in materials with superconducting order. Of special interest here is the class of solutions of the Majorana equation in one and two spatial dimensions at exactly zero energy. These Majorana zero modes are endowed with some remarkable physical properties that may lead to advances in quantum computing and, in fact, there is evidence that they have been experimentally observed. This review first summarizes the basics of Majorana's theory and its implications. It then provides an overview of the rich experimental programs trying to find a fermion that is its own anti-particle in nuclear, particle, and solid state physics.

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“…A very advanced study on colloidal quantum dots performance, as liquid scintillator in toluene, has been performed in ref [2] and compared to PPO. The spectrum from a 90 Sr beta source was measured with 20 mL of toluene, showing a reasonable signal yields for 1.5 g/L of quantum dots from different suppliers.…”

Section: Qds In Liquid Scintillatormentioning

confidence: 99%

Nanostructured materials for particle detector

Chiodini¹

2017

Proceedings of INFN Workshop on Future Detectors — PoS(IFD2015)

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This paper discusses the opportunities and the challenges related to the use of nanostructured material for particle detectors. These materials are subject of intense research and application works since the nineties. Nevertheless, a direct application in technology related to particle detection in accelerator or underground experiments can not yet be found. Despite of this, several R&Ds based on these advanced materials are pursued by few INFN research groups and in the world. Nanotechnology is advancing rapidly and it is worthwhile to be aware of its potentiality with the ambition to improve the performance of existing detectors or conceive new ones as required in future generation of experiments. Here the discussion is limited to nanostructured materials where detector applications are envisaged and some INFN groups are involved: colloidal quantum dots, metal nanowires, carbon nanotubes and graphene sheets, which are examples of materials with dimensionality 0, 1 and 2.

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Characterizing quantum-dot-doped liquid scintillator for applications to neutrino detectors

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Optical properties of quantum-dot-doped liquid scintillators

Optical properties of quantum-dot-doped liquid scintillators

Colloquium: Majorana fermions in nuclear, particle, and solid-state physics

Nanostructured materials for particle detector

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