Use of poly(ethylene naphthalate) as a self-vetoing structural material

Y. Efremenko, L. Fajt, M. Febbraro, F. Fischer, M. Guitart, B. Hackett, C. Hayward, R. Hodák, B. Majorovits, L. Manzanillas, D. Muenstermann, E. Oz, R. Pjatkan, M. Pohl, D. Radford, R. Rouhana, O. Schulz, I. Štekl, M. Stommel

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Abstract

Poly(ethylene naphthalate), PEN, is an industrial polyester which has been shown to scintillate in the blue wavelength region. Combined with measurements of a high intrinsic radiopurity, this has sparked interest in the material for use in low-background experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012225
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume1468
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 20 2020
Event16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2019 - Toyama, Japan
Duration: Sep 9 2019Sep 13 2019

Funding

This work was supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic under the Contract Number FV30231. Research sponsored by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Award Number DE-AC05-00OR22725. Erdem Öz is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB1258). Connor Hayward is supported by the Excellence Cluster Universe.

FundersFunder number
Excellence Cluster Universe
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
Nuclear PhysicsDE-AC05-00OR22725
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftSFB1258
Ministerstvo Průmyslu a ObchoduFV30231

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