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Preparation and characterization of plastic scintillators with different proportions

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In this paper, three polymeric bases (styrene, vinyl toluene, methyl methacrylate (MMA)) plastic scintillators were synthesized by thermal and UV irradiation polymerization. The influences of the concentrations of the primary fluorescent agent 2.5-diphenyloxazole (PPO) and wave-shift agent 1,4-bis-2(5-phenyloxazoyl)benzene (POPOP) on plastic scintillators characterization were investigated. The results suggest that the maximum emission wavelength of synthesized plastic scintillators with different polymeric base are all around 423 nm matching with maximum response wavelength of general photoelectric devices, and its decay time with several nanoseconds has reached the same level as the EJ-200. The maximum light yield of the plastic scintillator was achieved when the mass ratio of PPO/POPOP is 1.0%/0.02% for the styrene plastic scintillators.

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The financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22061132004, U21A20442, U2031206, 12273086, 22106059, 21771093), Gansu guiding program of Science and Technology Innovation (No. 20JR10RA610, 2022CYZC-06), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. lzujbky-2021-kb11, lzujbky-2021-sp41, lzujbky-2021-kb06) and Science and Technology Projects of Gansu Province (21JR1RA265) are gratefully appreciated.

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  1. School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Yichen Hu, Jiaju Ma, Tonghuan Liu & Tianhao Dong

  2. Frontier Science Center for Rare Isotopes, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Tonghuan Liu

  3. Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Yongjie Zhang, Yuhong Yu, Zhiyu Sun & Fang Fang

  4. School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Yanhong Zhao & Gen Zhou

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Hu, Y., Ma, J., Liu, T. et al. Preparation and characterization of plastic scintillators with different proportions. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 332, 1047–1054 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08748-6

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