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Author: Anna Pla-Dalmau, Alan D. Bross and Kerry L. Mellott (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Title: Extruded Plastic Scintillation Detectors

Abstract: As a way to lower the cost of plastic scintillation detectors,commercially available polystyrene pellets have been used in the production of scintillating materials that can be extruded into different profiles. The selection of the raw materials is discussed. Two techniques to add wavelength shifting dopants to polystyrene pellets and to extrude plastic scintillating strips are described. Data on light yield and transmittance measurements are presented.

Comments: 7 pages with 6 figures; submitted to the DPF99 Conference proceedings to be published in the Web.Report-no: FERMILAB-Conf-99/095

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