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

Authors

JAMES WETZEL
EMRAH TIRAŞ
BURAK BİLKİ
NİLAY BOSTAN
OHANNES KAMER KÖSEYAN

DOI

10.3906/fiz-1912-9

Abstract

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 120GeVprotons. The test beam was provided by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, andthescintillators 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.

Keywords

Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), scintillators and scintillating fibres and light guides

First Page

437

Last Page

441

Recommended Citation

WETZEL, JAMES; TIRAŞ, EMRAH; BİLKİ, BURAK; BOSTAN, NİLAY; and KÖSEYAN, OHANNES KAMER (2020) "Scintillation timing characteristics of common plastics for radiation detection excited with 120 GeV protons," Turkish Journal of Physics: Vol. 44: No. 5, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3906/fiz-1912-9
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/physics/vol44/iss5/2