Extruded Plastic Scintillation Detectors

Anna Pla-Dalmau; Alan D. Bross; Kerry L. Mellott

Extruded Plastic Scintillation Detectors

Instrumentation and Detectors 2007-05-23 v1

Authors: Anna Pla-Dalmau , Alan D. Bross , Kerry L. Mellott

Abstract

As a way to lower the cost of plastic scintillation detectors, commercially available polystyrene pellets have been used in the production of scintillating materials that can be extruded into different profiles. The selection of raw materials is discussed. Two techniques to add wavelength shifting dopants to polystyrene pellets and to extrude plastic scintillating strips are described. Data on light yield and transmittance measurements are presented.

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/9904004,
  title  = {Extruded Plastic Scintillation Detectors},
  author = {Anna Pla-Dalmau and Alan D. Bross and Kerry L. Mellott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9904004},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, 6 figures; submitted to DPF99 Conference Proceedings to be published on the Web

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