Pulse shape analysis of liquid scintillators for neutron studies

S Marrone, D Cano-Ott, N Colonna, C Domingo… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2002 - Elsevier
The acquisition of signals from liquid scintillators with Flash ADC of high sampling rate (1
GS/s) has been investigated. The possibility to record the signal waveform is of great …

The EUROBALL neutron wall–design and performance tests of neutron detectors

Ö Skeppstedt, HA Roth, L Lindström… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 1999 - Elsevier
The mechanical design of the EUROBALL neutron wall and neutron detectors, and their
performance measured with a 246,248 Cm fission source are described. The array consists …

Identification of shielded neutron sources with the liquid scintillator BC-501A using a digital pulse shape discrimination method

M Flaska, SA Pozzi - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2007 - Elsevier
Fast and unambiguous identification of shielded neutron sources is of paramount
importance in nuclear nonproliferation and international safeguards applications. Usually …

Fast neutron and gamma ray pulse shape discrimination in EJ-276 and EJ-276G plastic scintillators

M Grodzicka-Kobylka, T Szczesniak… - Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we report on the scintillation properties and pulse shape discrimination (PSD)
performance of new plastic scintillators, EJ-276 and EJ-276G. Cylindrical samples with …

Quenching and channeling of nuclear recoils in NaI (Tl): Implications for dark-matter searches

JI Collar - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2013 - APS
A new experimental evaluation of the quenching factor for nuclear recoils in NaI [Tl] is
described. Systematics affecting previous measurements are addressed by careful …

Anti-noise performance of the pulse coupled neural network applied in discrimination of neutron and gamma-ray

HR Liu, Z Zuo, P Li, BQ Liu, L Chang… - Nuclear Science and …, 2022 - Springer
In this study, the anti-noise performance of a pulse-coupled neural network (PCNN) was
investigated in the neutron and gamma-ray (n− γ) discrimination field. The experiments were …

Digital pulse-shape discrimination of fast neutrons and γ rays

PA Söderström, J Nyberg, R Wolters - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in …, 2008 - Elsevier
Discrimination of the detection of fast neutrons and γ rays in a liquid scintillator detector has
been investigated using digital pulse-processing techniques. An experimental setup with a …

Rapid imaging of special nuclear materials for nuclear nonproliferation and terrorism prevention

J Petrović, A Göök, B Cederwall - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
We introduce a neutron-gamma emission tomography (NGET) technique for rapid detection,
three-dimensional imaging, and characterization of special nuclear materials like weapons …

Liquid scintillators neutron response function: a tutorial

M Cecconello - Journal of Fusion Energy, 2019 - Springer
This tutorial is devoted to the understanding of the different components that are present in
the neutron light output pulse height distribution of liquid scintillators in fusion relevant …

Discrimination of neutron and gamma ray using the ladder gradient method and analysis of filter adaptability

HR Liu, MZ Liu, YL Xiao, P Li, Z Zuo… - Nuclear Science and …, 2022 - Springer
This study proposes a ladder gradient method for neutron and gamma-ray discrimination.
The proposed method exhibited state-of-the-art performance with low time consumption …