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Hanno Perrey

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The light-yield response of a NE-213 liquid-scintillator detector measured using 2–6 MeV tagged neutrons

Author

  • J. Scherzinger
  • R. Al Jebali
  • J. R M Annand
  • K. G. Fissum
  • R. Hall-Wilton
  • K. Kanaki
  • M. Lundin
  • B. Nilsson
  • H. Perrey
  • A. Rosborg
  • H. Svensson
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Summary, in English

The response of a NE-213 liquid-scintillator detector has been measured using tagged neutrons from 2 to 6 MeV originating from an Am/Be neutron source. The neutron energies were determined using the time-of-flight technique. Pulse-shape discrimination was employed to discern between gamma-rays and neutrons. The behavior of both the fast (35 ns) and the combined fast and slow (475 ns) components of the neutron scintillation-light pulses were studied. Three different prescriptions were used to relate the neutron maximum energy-transfer edges to the corresponding recoil-proton scintillation-light yields, and the results were compared to simulations. The overall normalizations of parametrizations which predict the fast or total light yield of the scintillation pulses were also tested. Our results agree with both existing data and existing parametrizations. We observe a clear sensitivity to the portion and length of the neutron scintillation-light pulse considered.

Department/s

  • Nuclear physics
  • European Spallation Source ESS AB
  • MAX IV Laboratory

Publishing year

2016-12-21

Language

English

Pages

121-127

Publication/Series

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volume

840

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Keywords

  • Fast-neutrons
  • Gamma-rays
  • NE-213
  • Pulse-shape discrimination
  • Scintillations

Status

Published

Project

  • Repository: Source-Testing Facility (STF) Projects
  • Neutron Tagging
  • Development of Radiation Detectors and Radiation-Detection Techniques

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0168-9002