Detecting fast and thermal neutrons with a boron loaded liquid scintillator, EJ-339A
F Pino1, L Stevanato2, D Cester2
1Laboratorio de Física Nuclear, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, 1080 A Caracas, Venezuela.
Abstract:
A commercial boron-loaded liquid scintillator EJ-339 A was studied, using a (252)Cf source with/without polyethylene moderator, to examine the possibility of discriminating slow-neutron induced events in (10)B from fast-neutron events, resulting from proton recoils, and gamma-ray events. Despite the strong light quenching associated with neutron induced events in (10)B, correct classification of these events is shown to be possible with the aid of digital signal processing.
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