Ultracold neutron properties of the Eljen-299-02D deuterated scintillator

Z Tang; E B Watkins; S M Clayton; S A Currie; D E Fellers; Md T Hassan; D E Hooks; T M Ito; S K Lawrence; S W T MacDonald; M Makela; C L Morris; L P Neukirch; A Saunders; C M O'Shaughnessy; C Cude-Woods; J H Choi; A R Young; B A Zeck; F Gonzalez; C Y Liu; N C Floyd; K P Hickerson; A T Holley; B A Johnson; J C Lambert; R W Pattie

doi:10.1063/5.0030972

Ultracold neutron properties of the Eljen-299-02D deuterated scintillator

Rev Sci Instrum. 2021 Feb 1;92(2):023305. doi: 10.1063/5.0030972.

Authors

Z Tang¹, E B Watkins¹, S M Clayton¹, S A Currie¹, D E Fellers¹, Md T Hassan¹, D E Hooks¹, T M Ito¹, S K Lawrence¹, S W T MacDonald¹, M Makela¹, C L Morris¹, L P Neukirch¹, A Saunders¹, C M O'Shaughnessy¹, C Cude-Woods², J H Choi², A R Young², B A Zeck², F Gonzalez³, C Y Liu³, N C Floyd⁴, K P Hickerson⁵, A T Holley⁶, B A Johnson⁷, J C Lambert⁷, R W Pattie⁸

Affiliations

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
² North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA.
³ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
⁴ University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA.
⁵ W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
⁶ Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee 38505, USA.
⁷ Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA.
⁸ East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA.

PMID: 33648127
DOI: 10.1063/5.0030972

Abstract

In this paper, we report studies of the Fermi potential and loss per bounce of ultracold neutrons (UCNs) on a deuterated scintillator (Eljen-299-02D). These UCN properties of the scintillator enable its use in a wide variety of applications in fundamental neutron research.