Influence of Self-Absorption on Pulse Shape Discrimination in Organic Glass Scintillators

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Hauptverfasser: Adamowski, Lukasz, Grodzicka-Kobylka, Martyna, Szczesniak, Tomasz, Syntfeld-Każuch, Agnieszka, Swiderski, Lukasz, Kisiel, Adam
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author Adamowski, Lukasz
Grodzicka-Kobylka, Martyna
Szczesniak, Tomasz
Syntfeld-Każuch, Agnieszka
Swiderski, Lukasz
Kisiel, Adam
author_facet Adamowski, Lukasz
Grodzicka-Kobylka, Martyna
Szczesniak, Tomasz
Syntfeld-Każuch, Agnieszka
Swiderski, Lukasz
Kisiel, Adam
contents Organic glass scintillators are an interesting alternative to liquid scintillators, offering many advantageous characteristics with few drawbacks. In this paper we investigate the influence of light self-absorption in the organic glass scintillator on its pulse shape discrimination capability. With five scintillators of different heights but same diameter, we measure photoelectron yield and Figure of Merit in neutron-gamma discrimination. The decrease of both values with increasing size is attributed to light self-absorption, while normalized Figure of Merit remains constant. The choice of gates for charge comparison method is discussed. We also use genetic algorithm to estimate decay times and intensities of fast, medium, and slow components of light pulse shapes measured with Bollinger-Thomas setup. We compare the results to trans-stilbene reference sample.
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spellingShingle Influence of Self-Absorption on Pulse Shape Discrimination in Organic Glass Scintillators
Adamowski, Lukasz
Grodzicka-Kobylka, Martyna
Szczesniak, Tomasz
Syntfeld-Każuch, Agnieszka
Swiderski, Lukasz
Kisiel, Adam
Instrumentation and Detectors
Organic glass scintillators are an interesting alternative to liquid scintillators, offering many advantageous characteristics with few drawbacks. In this paper we investigate the influence of light self-absorption in the organic glass scintillator on its pulse shape discrimination capability. With five scintillators of different heights but same diameter, we measure photoelectron yield and Figure of Merit in neutron-gamma discrimination. The decrease of both values with increasing size is attributed to light self-absorption, while normalized Figure of Merit remains constant. The choice of gates for charge comparison method is discussed. We also use genetic algorithm to estimate decay times and intensities of fast, medium, and slow components of light pulse shapes measured with Bollinger-Thomas setup. We compare the results to trans-stilbene reference sample.
title Influence of Self-Absorption on Pulse Shape Discrimination in Organic Glass Scintillators
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08513