Temperature dependency analysis of light output from an NE-213 liquid sintillator

Author

Gehman, Daniel ; Smith-Nelson, Mark ; Ianakiev, Kiril ; Dinwiddie, Derek ; Rooney, Brian

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos

Volume

2

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

1432

Lastpage

1435

Abstract

NE-213 liquid scintillation detectors are currently used in radiation fields consisting of both gamma rays and fast neutrons and are an excellent tool for differentiating between each type of radiation via their respective interactions. In this experiment, an analysis was performed on an NE-213 liquid scintillation detector to investigate the effects of temperature changes on the light output. The two effects measured were the amount of the individual light decay components have to the total pulse height and the total gain of the system as a function of temperature.

Keywords

gamma-ray detection; liquid scintillation detectors; neutron detection; NE-213 liquid scintillator detectors; gamma ray interactions; light decay components; neutron detectors; radiation fields; Equations; Frequency; Gamma ray detection; Gamma ray detectors; Laboratories; Neutrons; Preamplifiers; Sampling methods; Telephony; Temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437269

Filename

4437269