Manufacturing and characterization of a boron-loaded fast-cured plastic organic scintillator

Tyler D. Doležal; Juan J. Manfredi; Brian G. Frandsen; James E. Bevins; Connor Gautam; Theodore W. Stephens; Thomas Ruland; Michael T. Febbraro

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2023.168602

Manufacturing and characterization of a boron-loaded fast-cured plastic organic scintillator

Tyler D. Doležal
, Juan J. Manfredi
, Brian G. Frandsen
, James E. Bevins
, Connor Gautam
, Theodore W. Stephens
, Thomas Ruland
, Michael T. Febbraro

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysi

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A novel fast-cured, boron-loaded, plastic organic scintillator was developed and characterized. A diisopropylnaphthalene-containing scintillator was manufactured in minutes with the addition of two commercially available fast-curing monomers, isobornyl acrylate (IBOA) and 1,6-Hexanediol dimethacrylate (HDDMA). The light yield of the device was measured to be approximately 70% relative to a similarly sized, but several-year-aged, EJ-276 detector. Using a coincidence capture technique, the neutron capture light output was found to be 87.7 ± 4.2 keVee, which was 1.47 ± 0.07 greater than the light output from a 59.5 keV electron. Producing a viable fast-cured and thermal-neutron-sensitive detector enables the capability to pursue cost-effective 3D printed thermal neutron detectors in a timely manner.

Original language	English
Article number	168602
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	1056
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168602
State	Published - Nov 2023

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This research was supported by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, United States under grant HDTRA113691 1, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics , under Award Number DE-AC05-00OR22725 , and the ORNL Laboratory Directed Research Development Program, United States .

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Neutron detector
Organic scintillator
Photo-cured scintillator
Plastic scintillator
Pulse shape discrimination

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Doležal, T. D., Manfredi, J. J., Frandsen, B. G., Bevins, J. E., Gautam, C., Stephens, T. W., Ruland, T., & Febbraro, M. T. (2023). Manufacturing and characterization of a boron-loaded fast-cured plastic organic scintillator. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1056, Article 168602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168602

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Manufacturing and characterization of a boron-loaded fast-cured plastic organic scintillator. / Doležal, Tyler D.; Manfredi, Juan J.; Frandsen, Brian G. et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 1056, 168602, 11.2023.

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