Fig. 1. (Color online) This illustration shows a cylindrical detector filled with a liquid scintillator (LS) with a volume of about one ton. To measure the optical signal generated by the LS, photomultiplier tubes are mounted close by to boost the detection efficiency. Some of the plastic scintillators and light guides used to veto cosmic ray events are missing from this figure. In addition, the LS can be doped (or loaded) with materials that have high neutron capture or photoelectric absorption cross sections, allowing for the observation of the desired physical interactions.
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