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Using a single-phase liquid argon detector with a signal yield of 4.85 photoelectrons per keV of electronic-equivalent recoil energy (keVee), we measure the scintillation time dependence of both electronic and nuclear recoils in liquid…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 W. H. Lippincott , K. J. Coakley , D. Gastler , A. Hime , E. Kearns , D. N. McKinsey , J. A. Nikkel , L. C. Stonehill

A new type of neutron detector, named Stack Structure Solid organic Scintillator (S$^4$), consisting of multi-layer plastic scintillators with capability to suppress low-energy $\gamma$ rays under high-counting rate has been constructed and…

Organic scintillators exhibit fast timing, high detection efficiency for fast neutrons and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) capability. PSD is essential in mixed radiation fields, where different types of radiation need to be detected and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-05 Jianxin Zhou , Abdullah Abdulaziz , Yoann Altmann , Angela Di Fulvio

Pressurized Helium-4 (PHe) based fast neutron scintillation detector offers an useful alternative to organic liquid-based scintillator due to its relatively low response to the $\gamma$-rays compared to the latter type of scintillator. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-04 Shubham Dutta , Sayan Ghosh , Satyajit Saha

The scintillation mechanism in NaI:Tl crystals produces different pulse shapes that are dependent on the incoming particle type. The time distribution of scintillation light from nuclear recoil events decays faster than for electron recoil…

We have measured the time dependence of scintillation light from electronic and nuclear recoils in liquid neon, finding a slow time constant of 15.4+-0.2 us. Pulse shape discrimination is investigated as a means of identifying event type in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Nikkel , R. Hasty , W. H. Lippincott , D. N. McKinsey

Scintillator doped with a high neutron-capture cross-section material can be used to detect neutrons via their resulting gamma rays. Examples of such detectors using liquid scintillator have been successfully used in high-energy physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-01 D. M. Poehlmann , D. Barker , H. Chagani , P. Cushman , G. Heuermann , A. Medved , H. E. Rogers , R. Schmitz

The energy and electric field dependence of pulse shape discrimination in liquid xenon have been measured in a 10 gm two-phase xenon time projection chamber. We have demonstrated the use of the pulse shape and charge-to-light ratio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Kwong , P. Brusov , T. Shutt , C. E. Dahl , A. I. Bolozdynya , A. Bradley

Fast neutrons are a large background to measurements of gamma-rays emitted from excited nuclei, such that detectors which can efficiently distinguish between the two are essential. In this paper we describe the separation of gamma-rays from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-15 Y. Ashida , H. Nagata , Y. Koshio , T. Nakaya , R. Wendell

Pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) is usually achieved using the different fast and slow decay components of inorganic scintillators, such as BaF2, CsI:Tl, etc. However, LaBr3:Ce is considered to not possess different components at room…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-03 Jirong Cang , XinChao Fang , Zhi Zeng , Ming Zeng , Yinong Liu , Zhigang Sun , Ziyun Chen

This manuscript describes measurements of water-based liquid scintillators (WbLS), demonstrating separation of the Cherenkov and scintillation components using the fast timing response of a Large Area Picosecond Photodector (LAPPD).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-03 T. Kaptanoglu , E. J. Callaghan , M. Yeh , G. D. Orebi Gann

The continued advancements of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have made them viable photosensors for low recoil energy Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) between fast neutron and gamma interactions when coupled to an appropriate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-01 B. Boxer , B. Godfrey , C. Grace , J. Johnson , R. Khandwala , M. Tripathi

Pulse shape discrimination in liquid scintillator detectors is a well-established technique for the discrimination of heavy particles from light particles. Nonetheless, it is not efficient in the separation of electrons and positrons, as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Perasso , G. Consolati , D. Franco , S. Hans , C. Jollet , A. Meregaglia , A. Tonazzo , M. Yeh

Tellurium-loaded liquid scintillators are critical for neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. However, conventional organic scintillators are constrained by the limited solubility of organic tellurium compounds compared with that of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-15 Ye Liang , Haozhe Sun , Zhe Wang

The characterization of a liquid scintillator incorporating an aqueous solution of enriched lithium chloride to produce a scintillator with 0.40% Li-6 is presented, including the performance of the scintillator in terms of its optical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-23 C. D. Bass , E. J. Beise , H. Breuer , C. R. Heimbach , T. Langford , J. S. Nico

Scintillation produced in liquid xenon by alpha particles and gamma rays has been studied as a function of applied electric field. For back scattered gamma rays with energy of about 200 keV, the number of scintillation photons was found to…

Organic scintillators using a solid polyurethane (PU) matrix have been introduced to combine the robustness of a construction material with scintillating properties that allow gamma rays and fast neutrons to be detected efficiently and at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-27 Olga Maiatska , Torsten Dünnebacke , Martin Kreuels , Guntram Pausch , Falko Scherwinski , Jürgen R. Stein

We present the characterization of a novel radiation detector based on an opaque water-based liquid scintillator. Opaque scintillators, also known as LiquidO, are made to be highly scattering, such that the scintillation light is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-21 LiquidO Collaboration

Detailed characterization of the newly available plastic scintillator (EJ-299-33A) having the pulse shape discrimination (PSD) property has been carried out in case of a large-sized detector (5 in.$\times$5 in.). The pulse height response…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-08 Pratap Roy , K. Banerjee , A. K. Saha , C. Bhattacharya , J. K. Meenaa , P. Bhaskar , S. Mukhopadhyay , S. Bhattacharya

A $^6$Li-doped plastic scintillator with pulse-shape discrimination capabilities, commercially identified as EJ-299-50, has been developed and produced at the kilogram-scale. A total of 44 kg-scale bars of dimensions 5.5 cm $\times$ 5.5 cm…