PoGOLino: a scintillator-based balloon-borne neutron detector

PoGOLino is a balloon-borne scintillator-based experiment developed to study the largely unexplored high altitude neutron environment at high geomagnetic latitudes. The instrument comprises two detectors that make use of LiCAF, a novel neutron sensitive scintillator, sandwiched by BGO crystals for b...

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Main Authors: Kole, Merlin, Chauvin, Maxime, Fukazawa, Yasushi, Fukuda, Kentaro, Ishizu, Sumito, Jackson, Miranda, Kamae, Tune, Kawaguchi, Noriaki, Kawano, Takafumi, Kiss, Mozsi, Moretti, Elena, Pearce, Mark, Rydström, Stefan, Takahashi, Hiromitsu, Yanagida, Takayuki
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Published: arXiv 2014
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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM
Instrumentation and Detectors physics.ins-det
FOS Physical sciences
Esrange
Northern Sweden
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1410.2377
https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2377
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Summary:PoGOLino is a balloon-borne scintillator-based experiment developed to study the largely unexplored high altitude neutron environment at high geomagnetic latitudes. The instrument comprises two detectors that make use of LiCAF, a novel neutron sensitive scintillator, sandwiched by BGO crystals for background reduction. The experiment was launched on March 20th 2013 from the Esrange Space Centre, Northern Sweden (geomagnetic latitude of $65^\circ$), for a three hour flight during which the instrument took data up to an altitude of 30.9 km. The detector design and ground calibration results are presented together with the measurement results from the balloon flight. : Accepted for publication in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A

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