THE STILBENE SCINTILLATION CRYSTAL AS A NEUTRON SPECTROMETER

Author:: Swartz, C. D.
Published:: United States : [publisher not identified], 1957.
[Oak Ridge, Tennessee] : [U.S. Atomic Energy Commission], 1957.
Physical Description:: microopaque : positive ; 8 x 13 cm
Additional Creators:: Ames, O. and Owen, G. E.

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Summary:

One of the more efficient detectors which can be used as a neutron spectrometer (for neutron energies from 1 Mev to 20 Mev) is a single hydrogenous scintillator with associated photomultiplier tube and apparatus for pulseheight analysis. Neutrons entering such a scintillator produce recoil protons whose energies can be determined, in principle, from the observed pulse-height spectrum. The energy spectrum of the incident neutrons can then be determined from the energy spectrum of the protons. The elementary theory of this process is discussed in the following sections Various perturbing effects and background are considered in succeeding sections. Numerical data are presented in the form of tables and graphs for the particular case of stilbene, C/sub 14/H/sub 12/. (auth)

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NYO-2053

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission depository collection.

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DOE contract number: AT(30-1)-2028
NSA number: NSA-12-001506
OSTI Identifier 4353618
Research organization: Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore.

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