New and improved phoswich detectors manufactured by a heat press technique

C. A. Pruneau; G. C. Ball; P. Dmytrenko; E. Hagberg; D. Horn; M. G. Steer; R. B. Walker; T. Whan; C. Rioux; R. Roy; C. St-Pierre; T. E. Drake; A. Galindo-Uribarri

doi:10.1016/0168-9002(90)91322-3

New and improved phoswich detectors manufactured by a heat press technique

C. A. Pruneau, G. C. Ball, P. Dmytrenko, E. Hagberg, D. Horn, M. G. Steer, R. B. Walker, T. Whan, C. Rioux, R. Roy, C. St-Pierre, T. E. Drake, A. Galindo-Uribarri

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A technique has been developed to produce plastic scintillator phoswich detectors with large areas, thin ΔE layers with thickness uniformity better than 3%, and no "dead" layer between the ΔE and E scintillators. A good signal separation for hydrogen isotopes and for elements with Z = 1 to 11 has been demonstrated in two different tests with a ΔE layer as thin as 0.7 mm. The elemental resolution most probably extends beyond Z = 11. The light-particle energy threshold of such a phoswich detector is only 7.5 MeV/u, ideal for reaction studies in the 10-40 MeV/u energy range available at the TASCC (Tandem Accelerator and SuperConducting Cyclotron) facility at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	404-409
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	297
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(90)91322-3
State	Published - Dec 10 1990
Externally published	Yes

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Pruneau, C. A., Ball, G. C., Dmytrenko, P., Hagberg, E., Horn, D., Steer, M. G., Walker, R. B., Whan, T., Rioux, C., Roy, R., St-Pierre, C., Drake, T. E., & Galindo-Uribarri, A. (1990). New and improved phoswich detectors manufactured by a heat press technique. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 297(3), 404-409. https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(90)91322-3

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