* Astronomy

Title: Scintillation of liquid neon from electronic and nuclear recoils
Authors: J. A. Nikkel, R. Hasty, W. H. Lippincott, D. N. McKinsey

We have measured the time dependence of scintillation light from electronic and nuclear recoils in liquid neon, finding a slow time constant of 15.4+-0.2 us. Pulse shape discrimination is investigated as a means of identifying event type in liquid neon. Finally, the nuclear recoil scintillation efficiency is measured to be 0.26+-0.03 for 387 keV nuclear recoils.

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