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 LhaL make use of LiCAF, a novel neutron sensitive scintillator, sandwiched by [GO crystals for background reduction. The experiment was launched on March 20th 2013 from the [orange Space Centre, Northern Sweden (geomagnetic latitude of 65 degrees), for a three hour flight during which the instrument Look data up loan altitude of 30.9 km. The detector design and ground calibration results are presented together with the measurement results from the balloon flight.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Neutron detection

Balloon-borne

Astroparticle physics

Phoswich scintillator

LiCAF

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