Response of the Li-6-enriched Cₛ₂LiYCl₆:Ce³⁺ (CLYC) detector to gamma-rays, fast and thermal neutrons
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Authors
Choun, Hyung Jin
Issue Date
2017-08
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Nuclear engineering
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Abstract
Pulse shape discrimination of gamma-ray and neutron events was carried out using the charge comparison method by taking the ratio of a delayed and prompt integration region of the detector pulse. The energy of the outgoing proton or α particle from neutron capture reactions scales linearly with the incident neutron energy. The linearity of the responses may enable CLYC to be used for fast-neutron spectroscopy via well-defined peaks in the pulse-height spectrum. The linearity of responses was investigated with different neutron sources (²⁵²Cf source and a Pu-Be source).
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August 2017
School of Engineering
School of Engineering
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY