Small Inorganic Scinti Llators as Neutron Detectors

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  • Colin M. Bartle
  • Robert C. Haight
  • C. M. Bartle
چکیده

Small organic scintillators that exhibit pulse shape dflierences (PSD) in response to charged particles have been investigated as possible neutron detectors in the energy range from 1 to 200 MeV. Neutrons in this energy range can induce reactions such as (up) and (n,alpha) in these scintillators, and the cross sections for these reactions vary with energy. Pulse-height and PSD dktributions were measured as a fi.mction of neutron energy for small crystals of NaI(Tl) and CSI(T1) at the LANSCE-WNR pulsed spallation neutron source. PSD information indicating the relative numbers of protons and alphas produced can give itiormation about the neutron spectmm in fast-neutron radiation fields such as those encountered in space exploration.

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تاریخ انتشار 2000