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Crystalline and Composite Scintillators for Fast and Thermal Neutron Detection

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Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies (ISMART 2016)

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Abstract

The control of the radioecological situation around nuclear power plants requires the detection of very low neutron fluxes. It makes necessary to use the large area detection systems. The same task is topical for radiobiology, radiomedicine, geological logging, and space applications. We proposed the technology to obtain the new class of scintillation materials, namely organic composite scintillators. It allows us to create the scintillation detectors of an unlimited area. We consider the hydrogen-bearing composite scintillators as a typical example of the detectors for fast neutrons and the composite scintillators based on grains of the Gd-bearing materials as the thermal neutron detectors. We discuss the combined detectors for selective detection of thermal and fast neutrons in the presence of background gamma radiation as well.

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  1. Institute for Scintillation Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Nikolai Z. Galunov, Natalya L. Karavaeva & Oleg A. Tarasenko

  2. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

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Galunov, N.Z., Karavaeva, N.L., Tarasenko, O.A. (2017). Crystalline and Composite Scintillators for Fast and Thermal Neutron Detection. In: Korzhik, M., Gektin, A. (eds) Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies. ISMART 2016. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68465-9_12

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