• DocumentCode
    75906
  • Title

    Plastic Scintillators With Neutron/Gamma Pulse Shape Discrimination

  • Author

    van Loef, Edgar V. ; Markosyan, Gary ; Shirwadkar, U. ; Shah, K.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Radiat. Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA, USA
  • Volume
    61
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Feb. 2014
  • Firstpage
    467
  • Lastpage
    471
  • Abstract
    In this paper we report on the fabrication and characterization of advanced plastic scintillators. Our results show that these novel plastic scintillators have a relatively high light yield, a fast scintillation decay, and very good neutron/gamma pulse shape discrimination.
  • Keywords
    neutron detection; pulse shaping; solid scintillation detectors; fabrication; fast scintillation decay; gamma pulse shape discrimination; neutron pulse shape discrimination; plastic scintillators; Additives; Gamma-rays; Liquids; Neutrons; Plastics; Polymers; Shape; Plastic scintillators; polybenzylmethacrylate; polystyrene; polyvinyltoluene;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.2013.2282079
  • Filename
    6651687
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=75906