Scintillation Efficiencies of Cyclohexane Solutions with Varying Solute Concentration

Abstract

Increasing the concentration of scintillator solute in cyclohexane leads to an increase in the relative scintillation yield through the action of the scintillator molecules as electron and positive ion scavengers. In this work the increase was shown to be proportional to the logarithm of the cube root of the solute concentration. This dependency indicates that over the concentration range investigated, 10−3 to approximately 1 mole/liter, the scavenging process differs from the square-root dependence which has often been observed with other electron scavengers.