High-efficiency scintillation detector for combined of thermal and fast neutrons and gamma radiation
Abstract
A scintillation based radiation detector for the combined detection of thermal neutrons, high-energy neutrons and gamma rays in a single detecting unit. The detector consists of a pair of scintillators sandwiched together and optically coupled to the light sensitive face of a photomultiplier tube. A light tight radiation pervious housing is disposed about the scintillators and a portion of the photomultiplier tube to hold the arrangement in assembly and provides a radiation window adjacent the outer scintillator through which the radiation to be detected enters the detector. The outer scintillator is formed of a material in which scintillations are produced by thermal-neutrons and the inner scintillator is formed of a material in which scintillations are produced by high-energy neutrons and gamma rays. The light pulses produced by events detected in both scintillators are coupled to the photomultiplier tube which produces a current pulse in response to each detected event. These current pulses may be processed in a conventional manner to produce a count rate output indicative of the total detected radiation even count rate. Pulse discrimination techniques may be used to distinguish the different radiations and their energy distribution.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1176594
- Patent Number(s):
- H000590
- Assignee:
- United States Of America, Department Of Energy
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Citation Formats
Chiles, Marion M., Mihalczo, John T., and Blakeman, Edward D. High-efficiency scintillation detector for combined of thermal and fast neutrons and gamma radiation. United States: N. p., 1989.
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Chiles, Marion M., Mihalczo, John T., & Blakeman, Edward D. High-efficiency scintillation detector for combined of thermal and fast neutrons and gamma radiation. United States.
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"High-efficiency scintillation detector for combined of thermal and fast neutrons and gamma radiation". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1176594.
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title = {High-efficiency scintillation detector for combined of thermal and fast neutrons and gamma radiation},
author = {Chiles, Marion M. and Mihalczo, John T. and Blakeman, Edward D.},
abstractNote = {A scintillation based radiation detector for the combined detection of thermal neutrons, high-energy neutrons and gamma rays in a single detecting unit. The detector consists of a pair of scintillators sandwiched together and optically coupled to the light sensitive face of a photomultiplier tube. A light tight radiation pervious housing is disposed about the scintillators and a portion of the photomultiplier tube to hold the arrangement in assembly and provides a radiation window adjacent the outer scintillator through which the radiation to be detected enters the detector. The outer scintillator is formed of a material in which scintillations are produced by thermal-neutrons and the inner scintillator is formed of a material in which scintillations are produced by high-energy neutrons and gamma rays. The light pulses produced by events detected in both scintillators are coupled to the photomultiplier tube which produces a current pulse in response to each detected event. These current pulses may be processed in a conventional manner to produce a count rate output indicative of the total detected radiation even count rate. Pulse discrimination techniques may be used to distinguish the different radiations and their energy distribution.},
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