Abstract:
The light output as a function of electron and proton energy for SND-S1 liquid scintillator was measured using several γ-ray sources and mono-energy neutrons from D-D, D-T nuclear reactions. The electron energy spectra of
137Cs (resolution-free) was calculated by Monte-Carlo code Penelope. It is found that the difference of the maximum Compton electron energy between calculated and measured values is 2.7%.The experiment results were compared with those of literatures. For energy below 3 MeV, results are in excellent agreement with all literatures’; Above 6 MeV, in excellent agreement with one literature’s and in moderate agreement with others’. The results indicate that the increase of the light output of liquid scintillator linearly depends on the energy of electron, but nonlinearly on the energy of proton.