Funct. Mater. 2014; 21 (3): 282-299.
Polystyrene-based plastic scintillator for n/γ -discrimination
Institute for Scintillating Materials, STC "Institute for Single Crystals", National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 60 Lenin Ave., 61001 Kharkiv, Ukraine
Polystyrene-based scintillator (PS) with 2-phenyl-5-(4-tert-butylephenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole or 2,5-di-(3-methylphenyl)-1,3,4 oxadiazole is proposed for pulse-shape n/γ -discrimination. This scintillator have improved mechanical properties, long operational time and high n/γ -discrimination parameter FOM (1.49 and 1.81 in a wide energy region), so obtained PS can be used as detectors of fast neutrons in the presence of gamma radiation background.
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