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Article Dans Une Revue Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Année : 2022

Investigation of CLYC-6 for thermal neutron detection and CLYC-7 for fast neutron spectrometry

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Highly enriched  6Li and  7Li Cs2LiYCl 6 (CLYC) scintillators were investigated in view of their application as thermal neutron counter (CLYC-6) and as fast neutron spectrometer (CLYC-7) in the recently developed B-RAD radiation survey metre, an instrument designed to work in regions of high magnetic fields, currently equipped with a probe for photon dose rate measurements and γ-spectrometry. Both crystals were irradiated with a 2.5 MeV mono-energetic neutron beam from a Deuterium–Deuterium (D–D) generator and characterised in terms of neutron/γ-ray (n/γ) discrimination capability by the Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) method, energy resolution and quenching factor. Both crystals exhibit an excellent n/γ discrimination, quantified by a Figure of Merit higher than 2. The measured thermal energy resolution of CLYC-6 is 6%. The quenching factor for the  6Li(n,t)α thermal neutron reaction is 0.65 and for the  35Cl(n,p)35S reaction is 0.91. The measured neutron detection efficiency per unit volume of CLYC-6 is 60% higher than that of a  3He proportional counter. CLYC-7 was tested as a fast neutron spectrometer below 10 MeV, when irradiated with continuum neutron spectra from Am–Be and  252Cf sources. A proton/α-particle (p/α) discrimination was performed exploiting the PSD technique, without any unfolding procedure. The resulting spectra match the corresponding ISO spectra better than the spectra without the p/α discrimination, especially in the range 3 MeV to 5 MeV. A more sensitive PSD algorithm might help to improve particle discrimination at lower energies, while different reaction channels arise at higher energies preventing a spectrometry analysis.
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hal-03596606 , version 1 (22-07-2024)

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Francesca Ferrulli, Marc Labalme, Marco Silari. Investigation of CLYC-6 for thermal neutron detection and CLYC-7 for fast neutron spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2022, 1029, pp.166460. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2022.166460⟩. ⟨hal-03596606⟩
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