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Title: Investigating the anisotropic scintillation response in anthracene through neutron, gamma-ray, and muon measurements

Abstract

Our paper reports a series of measurements that characterize the directional dependence of the scintillation response of crystalline anthracene to incident DT neutrons, DD neutrons, 137Cs gamma rays, and, for the first time, cosmic ray muons. Moreover, the neutron measurements give the amplitude and pulse shape dependence on the proton recoil direction over one hemisphere of the crystal, confirming and extending previous results in the literature. In similar measurements using incident gamma rays, no directional effect is evident, and any anisotropy with respect to the electron recoil direction is constrained to have a magnitude of less than a tenth of that present in the proton recoil events. Cosmic muons are measured at two directions, and no anisotropy is observed. Our set of observations indicates that high dE/dx is necessary for an anisotropy to be present for a given type of scintillation event, which in turn could be used to discriminate among different hypotheses for the underlying causes of the anisotropy, which are not well understood.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
OSTI Identifier:
1257805
Report Number(s):
SAND-2016-2176J
Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9499; 620054; TRN: US1601758
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9499
Publisher:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Schuster, Patricia, and Brubaker, Erik. Investigating the anisotropic scintillation response in anthracene through neutron, gamma-ray, and muon measurements. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1109/tns.2016.2542589.
Schuster, Patricia, & Brubaker, Erik. Investigating the anisotropic scintillation response in anthracene through neutron, gamma-ray, and muon measurements. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2016.2542589
Schuster, Patricia, and Brubaker, Erik. 2016. "Investigating the anisotropic scintillation response in anthracene through neutron, gamma-ray, and muon measurements". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2016.2542589. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1257805.
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abstractNote = {Our paper reports a series of measurements that characterize the directional dependence of the scintillation response of crystalline anthracene to incident DT neutrons, DD neutrons, 137Cs gamma rays, and, for the first time, cosmic ray muons. Moreover, the neutron measurements give the amplitude and pulse shape dependence on the proton recoil direction over one hemisphere of the crystal, confirming and extending previous results in the literature. In similar measurements using incident gamma rays, no directional effect is evident, and any anisotropy with respect to the electron recoil direction is constrained to have a magnitude of less than a tenth of that present in the proton recoil events. Cosmic muons are measured at two directions, and no anisotropy is observed. Our set of observations indicates that high dE/dx is necessary for an anisotropy to be present for a given type of scintillation event, which in turn could be used to discriminate among different hypotheses for the underlying causes of the anisotropy, which are not well understood.},
doi = {10.1109/tns.2016.2542589},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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