Radioluminescent characteristics of the EJ 299-33 plastic scintillator

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.06.020
• Publication Date: 2013-06-26T20:31:19Z
• Authors: S. Nyibule; E. Henry; W.U. Schröder; J. Tõke; L. Acosta; L. Auditore; G. Cardella; E. De Filippo; L. Francalanza; S. Gìani; T. Minniti; E. Morgana; E.V. Pagano; S. Pirrone; G. Politi; L. Quattrocchi; F. Rizzo; P. Russotto; A. Trifirò; M. Trimarchi
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 7. Clean energy

Abstract The response of the EJ 299-33 plastic scintillator to energetic charged nuclear particles ranging from isotopes of hydrogen to isotopes of carbon has been determined over a wide energy range using a complex experimental setup and nuclear reactions induced by a 20 AMeV carbon beam on an aluminum target. A strong pulse-shape dependence of the generated light bursts on the impinging particle specie is observed, which makes this scintillator suitable, among other things, for neutron vs. γ - ray identification. Fit formulas are proposed for the normalized light output as a function of particle energy for eleven isotopes of elements ranging from hydrogen to carbon.