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Pulse-shape discrimination of the new plastic scintillators in neutron–gamma mixed field using fast digitizer card

JANČÁŘ, Aleš, Zdeněk KOPECKÝ, Jan DRESSLER, Martin VEŠKRNA, Zdeněk MATĚJ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Pulse-shape discrimination of the new plastic scintillators in neutron–gamma mixed field using fast digitizer card

Authors

JANČÁŘ, Aleš (203 Czech Republic), Zdeněk KOPECKÝ (203 Czech Republic), Jan DRESSLER (203 Czech Republic), Martin VEŠKRNA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Zdeněk MATĚJ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), C. GRANJA (203 Czech Republic) and M. SOLAR (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Elsevier, 2015, 0969-806X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10304 Nuclear physics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.207

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/15:00083307

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.05.007

UT WoS

000362606200012

Keywords in English

Scintillation detectors; Mono-energetic neutron sources; Pulse-shape discrimination; Figure of merit; Digital-signal processing

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 2/5/2016 06:38, RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Recently invented plastic scintillator EJ-299-33 enables pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) and thus measurement of neutron and photon spectra in mixed fields. In this work we compare the PSD properties of EJ-299-33 plastic and the well-known NE-213 liquid scintillator in monoenergetic neutron fields generated by the Van de Graaff accelerator using the 3H(d, n)4He reaction. Pulses from the scintillators are processed by a newly developed digital measuring system employing the fast digitizer card. This card contains two AD converters connected to the measuring computer via 10 Gbps optical ethernet. The converters operate with a resolution of 12 bits and have two differential inputs with a sampling frequency 1 GHz. The resulting digital channels with different gains are merged into one composite channel with a higher digital resolution in a wide dynamic range of energies. Neutron signals are fully discriminated from gamma signals. Results are presented.
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