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SUMMARY:LiquidO opaque scintillator detectors and the physics opportunitie
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CONTACT:paolo.beltrame@liverpool.ac.uk
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jeff Hartnell\n\nRadiation detectors enable many asp
 ects of our modern lives\, from the light sensors in our smartphone camera
 s to PET scanners that inform treatment of cancer. Particle physicists hav
 e often led the development and exploitation of cutting edge radiation det
 ectors to identify particles while measuring their energies\, positions an
 d directions.Many radiation detectors use scintillators\, which traditiona
 lly have nearly always been transparent to allow detection of the light. O
 ur new counter-intuitive approach called “LiquidO” is to use highly sc
 attering opaque scintillator. The opacity causes the light to bounce aroun
 d close to where it is produced and then optical fibres extract the light.
  By looking at which fibres are hit and how much light each one sees\, pre
 cise particle position and directional information can be obtained. We've 
 demonstrated that our approach outperforms existing scintillator technolog
 y by a factor of two. With further R&D the resolution is expected to impro
 ve by 5-10x\, for a similar cost to existing technology. Or\, importantly 
 for some applications\, reduce the detector cost by 5-10x while maintainin
 g the resolution.There are multiple applications for high-resolution and c
 ost-effective radiation imaging\, from Compton cameras for gamma ray imagi
 ng to precision muon tomography. In particle physics\, the CLOUD neutrino 
 experiment will pioneer new physics measurements using the novel LiquidO o
 paque scintillator technology.https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/35130398291
 4976?p=pQyKQ8RYOWUabmBOTSMeeting ID: 351 303 982 914 976Passcode: kE6wM3ip
 \n\nhttps://indico.ph.liv.ac.uk/event/2119/
LOCATION:OLL/3-337 (Liverpool Physics)
URL:https://indico.ph.liv.ac.uk/event/2119/
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