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Gadolinium-loaded Plastic Scintillators for Thermal Neutron Detection using Compensation

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Plastic scintillator loading with gadolinium-rich organometallic complexes shows a high potential for the deployment of efficient and cost-effective neutron detectors. Due to the low-energy photon and electron signature of thermal neutron capture by Gd-155 and Gd-157, alternative treatment to pulse-shape discrimination has to be proposed in order to display a count rate. This paper discloses the principle of a compensation method applied to a two-scintillator system: a detection scintillator interacts with photon and fast neutron radiation and is loaded with gadolinium organometallic compound to become a thermal neutron absorber, while a not-gadolinium loaded compensation scintillator solely interacts with the fast neutron and photon part of incident radiation. After the nonlinear smoothing of the counting signals, a hypothesis test determines whether the resulting count rate post-background response compensation falls into statistical fluctuations or provides a robust indication of neutron activity. Laboratory samples are tested under both photon and neutron irradiations, allowing the authors to investigate the performance of the overall detection system in terms of sensitivity and detection limits, especially with regards to a similar-active volume He-3 based commercial counter. The study reveals satisfactory figures of merit in terms of sensitivity and directs future investigation toward promising paths.
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hal-01615216 , version 1 (23-06-2022)

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Jonathan Nicolas Dumazert, Romain Coulon, Matthieu Hamel, Frédérick Carrel, Fabien Sguerra, et al.. Gadolinium-loaded Plastic Scintillators for Thermal Neutron Detection using Compensation. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2016, 63 (3), pp.1551 - 1564. ⟨10.1109/TNS.2016.2535278⟩. ⟨hal-01615216⟩
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