{"id":4897,"date":"2009-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2009\/01\/01\/liquid-organic-scintillator-detectors-for-nuclear-material-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T08:00:00","slug":"liquid-organic-scintillator-detectors-for-nuclear-material-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"physics_clinic","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/clinic\/projects\/liquid-organic-scintillator-detectors-for-nuclear-material-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Organic Scintillator Detectors for Nuclear Material Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"clinic-sponsor\">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"clinic-year\">2009\u201310<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The joint Physics\/Engineering project sponsored by LLNL aims to research a potential organic scintillator for use in an antineutrino detector.\u00ac\u2020 Such a detector must have neutron-gamma discrimination capabilities, and the HMC team will test those capabilities for various cell dimensions and reflectivity levels.\u00ac\u2020 The team will also investigate the relative efficacy of two different algorithms for discriminating between neutron and gamma events.\u00ac\u2020\u00ac\u2020 The result of the team\u2018s research will inform the direction of LLNL\u2018s next antineutrino detector.<\/p>\n<p id=\"clinic-advisor\"><strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Richard Campbell Haskell.<\/p>\n<p id=\"clinic-team\"><strong>Team:<\/strong> Yoichi Sagawa &#8217;11, Roger A. Billingsley &#8217;10, Chen K. Lim &#8217;10, Alex N. Steinkamp &#8217;10, and Steven F. Ning &#8217;10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4897","physics_clinic","type-physics_clinic","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_clinic\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_clinic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_clinic"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}