Organic Scintillator Detector Response Simulations with DRiFT

Technical Report · Mon Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1337122· OSTI ID:1337122

Andrews, Madison Theresa ^[1]; Bates, Cameron Russell ^[1]; Mckigney, Edward Allen ^[1]; Rising, Michael Evan ^[1]; Pinilla, Maria Isabel ^[1]; Solomon, Jr., Clell Jeffrey ^[1]; Sood, Avneet ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Accurate detector modeling is a requirement to design systems in many non-proliferation scenarios; by determining a Detector’s Response Function (DRF) to incident radiation, it is possible characterize measurements of unknown sources. DRiFT is intended to post-process MCNP® output and create realistic detector spectra. Capabilities currently under development include the simulation of semiconductor, gas, and (as is discussed in this work) scintillator detector physics. Energy spectra and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) trends for incident photon and neutron radiation have been reproduced by DRiFT.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1337122
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-29519; TRN: US1701414
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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