1. Plastic scintillators with efficient neutron/gamma pulse shape discrimination
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Iwona PaweŁczak, Natalia Zaitseva, Benjamin L. Rupert, Leslie Carman, H. Paul Martinez, Nerine J. Cherepy, A. Glenn, Stephen A. Payne, and Michelle Faust
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Physics ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,business.industry ,Polymer ,Scintillator ,Pulse (physics) ,Matrix (chemical analysis) ,Optics ,chemistry ,Excited state ,Neutron detection ,Neutron ,business ,Instrumentation - Abstract
A possibility of manufacturing plastic scintillators with efficient neutron/gamma pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is demonstrated using a system of a polyvinyltoluene (PVT) polymer matrix loaded with a scintillating dye, 2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO). Similarities and differences of conditions leading to the rise of PSD in liquid and solid organic scintillators are discussed based on the classical model of excited state interaction and delayed light formation. First characterization results are presented to show that PSD in plastic scintillators can be of the similar magnitude or even higher than in standard commercial liquid scintillators.
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- 2012
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