title: Fluorescence decay-time constants in organic liquid scintillators.
abstract: The fluorescence decay-time constants have been measured for several scintillator mixtures based on phenyl-o-xylylethane (PXE) and linear alkylbenzene (LAB) solvents. The resulting values are of relevance for the physics performance of the proposed large-volume liquid scintillator detector Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy (LENA). In particular, the impact of the measured values to the search for proton decay via p-->K(+)nu is evaluated in this work.
authors.affiliation: Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str., 85748 Garching, Germany. marrodan@physik.uzh.ch
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Marrodán Undagoitia
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: von Feilitzsch
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authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Oberauer
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Potzel
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authors.lastname: Ulrich
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authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Winter
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authors.lastname: Wurm