Discrimination of Fast and Thermal Neutrons Using a Novel Phoswich Detector of LaCl3and LiI:Eu Single Crystal Scintillators

Sonu; Mohit Tyagi; Tarun Patel; Phan Quoc Vuong; P. S. Sarkar; Hongjoo Kim

doi:10.1109/TNS.2023.3271460

Discrimination of Fast and Thermal Neutrons Using a Novel Phoswich Detector of LaCl₃and LiI:Eu Single Crystal Scintillators

Sonu, Mohit Tyagi, Tarun Patel, Phan Quoc Vuong, P. S. Sarkar, Hongjoo Kim

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A novel phoswich detector was set up by employing LaCl3 + LiI:Eu single crystal scintillators and was characterized in detail for its performance with Am-Be, D-D, and D-T neutron sources. LaCl3 crystal shows transparency to the scintillation emission of LiI:Eu for light collection to photo multiplier tube (PMT). Thermal and fast neutrons were successfully discriminated by pulse shape discrimination (PSD) with high value of figure of merit of 5.5 due to significant difference of their scintillation kinetics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1325-1330
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	70
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2023.3271460
State	Published - 1 Jul 2023

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Neutron detector
pulse shape discrimination (PSD)
scintillator
single crystal

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Discrimination of Fast and Thermal Neutrons Using a Novel Phoswich Detector of LaCl₃and LiI:Eu Single Crystal Scintillators

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