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
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;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2013.2282079
