Plastic scintillators with high loading of one or more metal carboxylates

Cherepy, Nerine; Sanner, Robert Dean

Title: Plastic scintillators with high loading of one or more metal carboxylates

Patent · Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2016

OSTI ID:1236347

Cherepy, Nerine; Sanner, Robert Dean

In one embodiment, a material includes at least one metal compound incorporated into a polymeric matrix, where the metal compound includes a metal and one or more carboxylate ligands, where at least one of the one or more carboxylate ligands includes a tertiary butyl group, and where the material is optically transparent. In another embodiment, a method includes: processing pulse traces corresponding to light pulses from a scintillator material; and outputting a result of the processing, where the scintillator material comprises at least one metal compound incorporated into a polymeric matrix, the at least one metal compound including a metal and one or more carboxylate ligands, where at least one of the one or more carboxylate ligands has a tertiary butyl group, and where the scintillator material is optically transparent and has an energy resolution at 662 keV of less than about 20%.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

Assignee:: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

Patent Number(s):: 9,234,968

Application Number:: 14/512,210

OSTI ID:: 1236347

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2014 Oct 10

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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