Scintillation timing characteristics of common plastics for radiation detection excited with 120 GeV protons

Wetzel J., Tiras E., Bilki B., Bostan N., Koseyan O. K.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, cilt.44, sa.5, ss.437-441, 2020 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 44 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3906/fiz-1912-9
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Compendex, INSPEC, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.437-441
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), scintillators and scintillating fibres and light guides, DECAY TIME
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The timing characteristics of scintillators must be understood in order to determine which applications they are appropriate for. Polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) and polyethylene teraphthalate (PET) are common plastics with uncommon scintillation properties. Here, we report the timing characteristics of PEN and PET, determined by exciting them with 120 GeV protons. The test beam was provided by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the scintillators were tested at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. PEN and PET are found to have dominant decay constants of 34.91 ns and 6.78 ns, respectively.