Title :
A new radiation-resistant plastic scintillator
Author :
Bowen, Margaret ; Majewski, Stan ; Pettey, David ; Walker, James ; Wojcik, Randolph ; Zorn, Carl
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA
fDate :
2/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A radiation-resistant plastic scintillator has been developed to withstand the high radiation dose regions that will be present in the proposed SSC and LHC accelerators. The base is a highly transparent and radiation resistant polysiloxane plastic. This has been doped with a variety of radiation resistant fluors. The resultant scintillators have been shown to be highly resistant to 60Co gamma radiation for doses of 10 megarad
Keywords :
gamma-ray effects; luminescence of organic solids; plastics; scintillation; scintillation counters; LHC; SSC; gamma radiation; high radiation dose regions; radiation resistant fluors; radiation resistant polysiloxane plastic; radiation-resistant plastic scintillator; Gamma rays; Large Hadron Collider; Linear particle accelerator; Physics; Plastics; Polymers; Portable media players; Propagation losses; Radiation detectors; Spectroscopy;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
