{"id":212451,"date":"2025-04-26T05:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/observatory-develops-high-efficiency-muon-detection-system-with-novel-plastic-scintillator-design"},"modified":"2025-04-26T05:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:11:20","slug":"observatory-develops-high-efficiency-muon-detection-system-with-novel-plastic-scintillator-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/observatory-develops-high-efficiency-muon-detection-system-with-novel-plastic-scintillator-design","title":{"rendered":"Observatory develops high-efficiency muon detection system with novel plastic scintillator design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/observatory-develops-high-efficiency-muon-detection-system-with-novel-plastic-scintillator-design.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) have developed a novel top veto tracker system for the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) experiment.<\/p>\n<p>This system features a top veto tracker system with remarkable characteristics such as high light yield, distinct signal-background differentiation and high detection efficiency even at high thresholds, and provides the TAO experiment with a robust capability to suppress cosmic muon induced fast neutron and radioisotope events, which are significant correlated backgrounds for the neutrino signal. This scalable solution establishes a transferable technique for next-generation neutrino detectors requiring muon identification efficiency 99.5% across multi-ton volumes.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s41365-025-01696-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nuclear Science and Techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) have developed a novel top veto tracker system for the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) experiment. This system features a top veto tracker system with remarkable characteristics such as high light yield, distinct signal-background differentiation and high detection efficiency even at high [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}