Next-generation neutron detection using a 6Li glass scintillator composite

A Favalli, BW Wiggins, M Iliev, CG Richards… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
Neutron detectors are crucial in fundamental science, nuclear security, safeguards, and civil
applications. 3He-filled gas proportional counters are the gold standard for thermal neutron …

Passive assay of plutonium metal plates using a fast-neutron multiplicity counter

A Di Fulvio, TH Shin, T Jordan, C Sosa, ML Ruch… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2017 - Elsevier
We developed a fast-neutron multiplicity counter based on organic scintillators (EJ-309
liquid and stilbene). The system detects correlated photon and neutron multiplets emitted by …

Evaluation of neutron light output response functions in EJ-309 organic scintillators

MA Norsworthy, A Poitrasson-Rivière, ML Ruch… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2017 - Elsevier
An accurate model of the nonlinear detector response of organic scintillators to neutrons is
required to correctly simulate fast neutron detection, as well as interpret measured pulse …

Neutron multiplicity counting moments for fissile mass estimation in scatter-based neutron detection systems

TH Shin, MY Hua, MJ Marcath… - Nuclear Science and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Neutron multiplicity counting (NMC) techniques are widely used for nuclear materials
accountability and international safeguards applications to quantitatively evaluate …

[PDF][PDF] Thermal neutron conversion by high purity 10B-enriched layers: PLD-growth, thickness-dependence and neutron-detection performances

AP Caricato, M Cesaria, P Finocchiaro… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Neutron applications and detection are of paramount importance in industry, medicine,
scientific research, homeland security, production of extreme UV optics and so on. Neutron …

A new ground level neutron monitor for space weather assessment

MD Aspinall, TL Alton, CL Binnersley, SC Bradnam… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We report on a new ground-level neutron monitor design for studying cosmic rays and fluxes
of solar energetic particles at the Earth's surface. The first-of-its-kind instrument, named the …

Boron coated straw-based neutron multiplicity counter for neutron interrogation of TRISO fueled pebbles

M Fang, J Lacy, A Athanasiades, A Di Fulvio - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Pebble bed reactors (PBRs) can improve the safety and economics of the nuclear energy
production. PBRs rely on TRIstructural-ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel pebbles for enhanced fission …

A DRiFT organic scintillator executable for nuclear safeguards applications

M Andrews, A Mullen, S Woldegiorgis… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
The Detector Response Function Toolkit (DRiFT) post-processes radiation transport output
from MCNP and simulates realistic gas, semiconductor, and scintillator nuclear …

Light output response of EJ-309 liquid organic scintillator to 2.86–3.95 MeV carbon recoil ions due to neutron elastic and inelastic scatter

MA Norsworthy, ML Ruch, MC Hamel, SD Clarke… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present the first measurements of energy-dependent light output from carbon recoils in
the liquid organic scintillator EJ-309. For this measurement, neutrons were produced by an …

Pulse height estimation and pulse shape discrimination in pile-up neutron and gamma ray signals from an organic scintillation detector using multi-task learning

J Kim, B Jeon, J Hwang, G Song, M Moon… - Applied Radiation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We developed a multi-tasking deep learning model for simultaneous pulse height estimation
and pulse shape discrimination for pile-up n/γ signals. Compared with single-tasking …