Development of neutron-monitor detector using liquid organic scintillator coupled with 6Li+ZnS(Ag) sheet

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 255-261

  Sato, Tatsuhiko ^a   Endo, Akira ^a   Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Fumiaki ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; SILVER DERIVATIVE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; ZINC DERIVATIVE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTATION; LIGHT; LIQUID; MONITOR; NEUTRON RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION MONITORING; SCINTILLATION; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LITHIUM; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTIONS; SULFIDES; TRANSDUCERS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 4644310424     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch122     Document Type: Article

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