Title :
Advanced plastic scintillators with pulse shape discrimination
Author :
van Loef, Edgar V. ; Markosyan, Gary ; Shirwadkar, U. ; Shah, K.S.
Author_Institution :
Radiat. Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA, USA
fDate :
Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012
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 exhibit very good neutron/gamma pulse shape discrimination.
Keywords :
solid scintillation detectors; fabrication; fast scintillation decay; gamma pulse shape discrimination; high-light yield; neutron pulse shape discrimination; plastic scintillators; Plastic scintillators; Polybenzylmethacrylate; Polystyrene; Polyvinyltoluene;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2028-3
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551456
