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New storage phosphors for thermal neutron detection

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The main requirements on neutron detectors based on storage phosphors (SPs) are formulated. It is shown that commercial gadolinium-containing neutron SPs (Gd-SPs) based on mixtures of BaFBr:Eu2+ with Gd2O3 (a neutron converter) do not possess optimum neutron characteristics because of a high sensitivity to gamma radiation. A comparative study of photostimulated luminescence (PSL) kinetics was performed for samples of halogen-containing borates Sr2B5O9Br(Cl) and Ca2B5O9Br(Cl) activated with Ce3+ ions and of the commercial Gd-SPs upon neutron and gamma irradiation. The results suggest that the PSL characteristics of the above borates with 100% content of 10B must be similar to those of Gd-SPs. Use of the halogen borates as SPs offers an advantage to Gd-SPs, because the former neutron detectors are less sensitive to gamma radiation.

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  1. St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, 195251, Russia

    A. V. Sidorenko & P. A. Rodnyi

  2. Delft University of Technology, 2629 JB, Mekelweg 15, Delft, The Netherlands

    C. W. E. van Eijk

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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 29, No. 14, 2003, pp. 33–38.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Sidorenko, Rodnyi, van Eijk.

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Sidorenko, A.V., Rodnyi, P.A. & van Eijk, C.W.E. New storage phosphors for thermal neutron detection. Tech. Phys. Lett. 29, 586–588 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1598557

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