Performance of Several Solid State Photomultipliers with CLYC Scintillator

Katherine E. Mesick; Laura C. Stonehill; Jonathan T. Morrell; Daniel D. S. Coupland

doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581936

Performance of Several Solid State Photomultipliers with CLYC Scintillator

Instrumentation and Detectors 2016-11-01 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Authors: Katherine E. Mesick , Laura C. Stonehill , Jonathan T. Morrell , Daniel D. S. Coupland

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$Cs_2LiYCl_6:Ce^{3+}$ (CLYC) is an inorganic scintillator that has recently garnered attention for its ability to detect and discriminate between gammas and thermal neutrons. We investigate several important performance parameters of three different solid state photomultipliers (SSPMs) when reading out CLYC crystals: linearity, energy resolution, and pulse shape and discrimination ability. These performance parameters are assessed at a variety of temperatures between -20 $^{\circ}$ C and +50 $^{\circ}$ C.

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solid state photomultipliers CLYC scintillator inorganic scintillator performance parameters gamma-neutron discrimination energy resolution temperature dependence

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@article{arxiv.1512.01155,
  title  = {Performance of Several Solid State Photomultipliers with CLYC Scintillator},
  author = {Katherine E. Mesick and Laura C. Stonehill and Jonathan T. Morrell and Daniel D. S. Coupland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01155},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Performance of Several Solid State Photomultipliers with CLYC Scintillator

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