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

Authors : James WETZEL, Emrah TIRAŞ, Burak BİLKİ, Nilay BOSTAN, Ohannes Kamer KÖSEYAN

Pages : 437-441

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The timing characteristics of scintillators must be understood in order to determine which applications they are appropriate for. Polyethylene naphthalate insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(PEN); and polyethylene teraphthalate insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(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.
Keywords : Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes solid, gas and liquid scintillators, scintillators and scintillating fibres and light guides