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most citedComparative scintillation performance of EJ-309, EJ-276, and a novel organic glass

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physics.ins-det2024★ 4 cited

Proton discrimination in CLYC for fast neutron spectroscopy

J. A. Brown, B. L. Goldblum, J. M. Gordon +3

The CsLiYCl:Ce (CLYC) elpasolite scintillator is known for its response to fast and thermal neutrons along with good -ray energy resolution. While the Cl() r…

physics.ins-det2023★ 14 cited

Absolute light yield of the EJ-204 plastic scintillator

J. A. Brown, T. A. Laplace, B. L. Goldblum +4

The absolute light yield of a scintillator, defined as the number of scintillation photons produced per unit energy deposited, is a useful quantity for scintillator development, re…

physics.ins-det2022★ 10 cited

Measurement of proton light yield of water-based liquid scintillator

E. J. Callaghan, B. L. Goldblum, J. A. Brown +4

The proton light yield of liquid scintillators is an important property in the context of their use in large-scale neutrino experiments, with direct implications for neutrino-proto…

physics.ins-det2021★ 15 cited

Simultaneous measurement of organic scintillator response to carbon and proton recoils

T. A. Laplace, B. L. Goldblum, J. J. Manfredi +6

Background: Organic scintillators are widely used for neutron detection in both basic nuclear physics and applications. While the proton light yield of organic scintillators has be…

physics.ins-det2021★ 16 cited

Proton light yield of fast plastic scintillators for neutron imaging

J. J. Manfredi, B. L. Goldblum, T. A. Laplace +6

Plastic organic scintillators have been tailored in composition to achieve ultra-fast temporal response, thereby enabling the design and development of fast neutron detection syste…

physics.ins-det2021★ 11 cited

Neutron Response of the EJ-254 Boron-Loaded Plastic Scintillator

Gino Gabella, Bethany L. Goldblum, Thibault A. Laplace +4

Organic scintillators doped with capture agents provide a detectable signal for neutrons over a broad energy range. This work characterizes the fast and slow neutron response of EJ…

physics.ins-det2020★ 53 cited

Comparative scintillation performance of EJ-309, EJ-276, and a novel organic glass

T. A. Laplace, B. L. Goldblum, J. E. Bevins +14

An organic glass scintillator developed by Sandia National Laboratories was characterized in terms of its light output and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) properties and compared…

physics.ins-det2020★ 36 cited

Proton Light Yield in Organic Scintillators using a Double Time-of-Flight Technique

J. A. Brown, B. L. Goldblum, T. A. Laplace +7

Recent progress in the development of novel organic scintillators necessitates modern characterization capabilities. As the primary means of energy deposition by neutrons in these…

physics.ins-det2020★ 25 cited

Neutron Spectroscopy for Pulsed Beams with Frame Overlap using a Double Time-of-Flight Technique

K. P. Harrig, B. L. Goldblum, J. A. Brown +6

A new double time-of-flight (dTOF) neutron spectroscopy technique has been developed for pulsed broad spectrum sources with a duty cycle that results in frame overlap, where fast n…

physics.ins-det2020★ 8 cited

Scintillator light yield measurements with waveform digitizers

T. A. Laplace, B. L. Goldblum, J. A. Brown +1

The proton light yield of organic scintillators has been measured extensively in recent years using fast waveform digitizers and large discrepancies exist in the values reported by…

physics.ins-det2020★ 33 cited

Low Energy Light Yield of Fast Plastic Scintillators

T. A. Laplace, B. L. Goldblum, J. A. Brown +9

Compact neutron imagers using double-scatter kinematic reconstruction are being designed for localization and characterization of special nuclear material. These neutron imaging sy…