Analysis of linear alkylbenzene samples with a camera-based equipment

Nestemäisiä tuikeaineita hyödyntävät ilmaisimet ovat saaneet jalansijaa neutriinofysiikassa viime vuosikymmeninä. Perinteisiin Cherenkovin ilmaisimiin niiden etu on suurempi hiukkasten vuorovaikutuksesta aiheutuvan valon tuotto. Lisäksi edullisten, suhteellisen ympäristöystävällisten ja optisesti ki...

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Main Author: Rytkönen, Heidi
Other Authors: Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Sciences, Fysiikan laitos, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/56521
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description Nestemäisiä tuikeaineita hyödyntävät ilmaisimet ovat saaneet jalansijaa neutriinofysiikassa viime vuosikymmeninä. Perinteisiin Cherenkovin ilmaisimiin niiden etu on suurempi hiukkasten vuorovaikutuksesta aiheutuvan valon tuotto. Lisäksi edullisten, suhteellisen ympäristöystävällisten ja optisesti kirkkaiden tuikeaineyhdisteiden (bentseenin alkyylijohdannaiset) saatavuus mahdollistaa yhä suurempien ilmaisimien rakennuksen. Nestemäisten tuikeaineiden ongelmana on kuitenkin niiden taipumus kerätä epäpuhtauksia itseensä ja niiden muutosalttius UV-säteilyn ja korkeiden lämpötilojen vaikutuksesta. Muutokset heikentävät tuikeaineiden valon tuottoa, ja siksi nestemäisten tuikeaineiden puhdistusta ja optisia ominaisuuksia on tutkittava, jotta saatavilla on mahdollisimman tehokas kohtio neutriinoille. Tässä tutkimuksessa erä bentseeninäytteitä puhdistettiin kemiassa yleisesti käytössä olevalla menetelmällä, pylväskromatografialla: näytteet suodatettiin hienojakoisen alumiinioksidin läpi useaan kertaan. Näytteiden kirkkautta mitattiin laitteistolla, jossa Raspberry Pi -minitietokoneen kameramoduulia käytettiin valosensorina. Bentseenin alkyylijohdannaisten pitkä vaimenemispituus aiheuttaa ongelmia mitattaessa valon vaimenemista: laitteiston tulisi olla niin pitkä, että näytteiden erot kirkkaudessa saataisiin erotettua paremmin. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on myös selvittää onko eroja mahdollista havaita pienemmällä ja edullisemmalla laitteistolla. Tuloksien mukaan laitteisto ei pysty nykyisessä muodossaan erottamaan näytteitä, joilla on hyvin pitkä vaimenemispituus. Ihanteellisessa tilanteessa laitteistolla on mahdollista havaita eroja näytteiden välillä, joiden absorptiossa on 0,4 % ero. Näytesäiliöiden pituus (50 mm) ei ollut tarpeeksi suuri, jotta valo olisi vaimentunut tarpeeksi. Use of liquid scintillator detectors has been an increasing trend in neutrino physics within the last decades. The light yield of scintillator detectors surpasses the traditional Cherenkov counters and availability of low-cost and relatively safe compounds (linear alkylbenzenes) as liquid scintillator solvent allows the construction of larger neutrino detectors. A downside of liquid scintillators is their tendency to get easily contaminated and undergo changes via exposure to UV light and elevated temperatures. For these reasons, purification and optical properties of liquid scintillators must be studied to make them suitable for large neutrino detectors. In this study a set of linear alkylbenzene samples were purified by a standard method used in chemistry called column chromatography: the samples were passed through a fine purification material (aluminum oxide) several times. The transparency measurements for the samples were carried out via a setup using a Raspberry camera module as a light detector. The long attenuation length of linear alkylbenzene is problematic for light measurements since it means that the setup must be long enough to detect differences between the purified samples. This setup was built to examine if it is possible to detect differences with this kind of low-cost setup. Results showed that the current setup is not precise enough to detect any differences between samples with long attenuation lengths. The setup is ideally able to distinguish samples that have at least difference of 0.4 % in their absorbance. The path length of LAB (50 mm) was not long enough to decrease the light input so that the samples would have had differences over 0.4 %.
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