Nico, J.
, Bass, C.
, Beise, E.
, Heimbach, C.
and Langford, T.
(2013),
Characterization of a 6Li-loaded liquid organic scintillator for fast neutron spectrometry and thermal neutron detection, International Journal of Applied Radiation and Isotopes, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=911570
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Characterization of a 6Li-loaded liquid organic scintillator for fast neutron spectrometry and thermal neutron detection
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, C. D. Bass, E J. Beise, , T. Langford
Abstract
We present the characterization of a liquid scintillator incorporating an aqueous solution of enriched lithium chloride to produce a scintillator with 0.40% 6Li. We report on its performance in terms of optical properties and neutron response. We incorporated the scintillator into a cell and measured the light output spectra from 2.5 MeV, 14 MeV, and Cf-252 neutrons using capture-gated coincidence techniques. We operated the spectrometer without coincidence to perform thermal neutron measurements. We discuss of possible improvements in spectrometer performance.Citation
International Journal of Applied Radiation and Isotopes
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Keywords
Fast neutron spectrometry, Thermal neutron detection, Organic scintillator, Lithium-6, Capture-gated coincidence
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Created March 24, 2013, Updated February 19, 2017