The Theory and Practice of Scintillation Counting is a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of scintillation counting. This text covers the study of the scintillation process, which is concerned with the interactions of radiation and matter; the design of the scintillation counter; and the wide range of applications of scintillation counters in pure and applied science. The book is easy to read despite the complex nature of the subject it attempts to discuss. It is organized such that the first five chapters illustrate the fundamental concepts of scintillation counting. Chapters 6 to 10 detail the properties and applications of organic scintillators, while the next four chapters discuss inorganic scintillators. The last two chapters provide a review of some outstanding problems and a postscript. Nuclear physicists, radiation technologists, and postgraduate students of nuclear physics will find the book a good reference material.

The handbook centers on detection techniques in the field of particle physics, medical imaging and related subjects. It is structured into three parts. The first one is dealing with basic ideas of particle detectors, followed by applications of these devices in high energy physics and other fields. In the last part the large field of medical imaging using similar detection techniques is described. The different chapters of the book are written by world experts in their field. Clear instructions on the detection techniques and principles in terms of relevant operation parameters for scientists and graduate students are given.Detailed tables and diagrams will make this a very useful handbook for the application of these techniques in many different fields like physics, medicine, biology and other areas of natural science.

Organic scintillators have been used in conjunction with photomultiplier tubes to detect fast neutrons since the early 1950s. The utility of these detectors is dependent on an understanding of the characteristics of their response to incident neutrons. Since the detected light in organic scintillators in a fast neutron radiation field comes primarily from neutron-proton elastic scattering, the relationship between the light generated in an organic scintillator and the energy of a recoiling proton is of paramount importance for spectroscopy and kinematic imaging. This relationship between proton energy deposited and light production is known as proton light yield. Several categories of measurement methods for proton light yield exist. These include direct methods, indirect methods, and edge characterization techniques. In general, measurements for similar or identical materials in the literature show a large degree of variance among the results. This thesis outlines the development of a new type of indirect method that exploits a double neutron time of flight technique. This new method is demonstrated using a pulsed broad spectrum neutron source at the 88-Inch Cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The double time of flight method for proton light yield measurements was established using two commercially available materials from Eljen Technology. The first is EJ-301, a liquid scintillator with a long history of use. Equivalent materials offered by other manufacturers include NE-213 from Nuclear Enterprise and BC-501A from Saint-Gobain Crystals. The second material tested in this work is EJ-309, a liquid scintillator with a proprietary formulation recently introduced by Eljen Technology with no commercial equivalents. The proton light yield measurements were conducted in concert with several system characterization measurements to provide a result to the community that is representative of the material itself. Additionally, the errors on the measurement were characterized with respect to systematic uncertainties, including an evaluation of the covariance of data points produced and the covariance of fit parameters associated with a semi-empirical model. This work demonstrates the viability of the double time of flight technique for continuous measurement of proton light yield over a broad range of energies without changes to the system configuration. The results of the light yield measurements on EJ-301 and EJ-309 suggest answers to two open questions in the literature. The first is that the size of the scintillation detector used to measure the proton light yield should not effect the result if the spatial distributions of Compton electrons and proton recoils are equivalent. Second, the shape of the scintillation detector should not effect the light yield with the same constraint on the spatial distributions. A characterized hardware and software framework has been developed, capable of producing proton light yield measurements on additional materials of interest. The acquisition, post processing, error analysis, and simulation software were developed to permit characterization of double time of flight measurements for a generic system, allowing it to be utilized to acquire and analyze data for an array of scintillation detectors regardless of detector size or geometric configuration. This framework establishes an extensible capability for performing proton light yield measurements to support basic and applied scientific inquiry and advanced neutron detection using organic scintillators.

This second open access volume of the handbook series deals with detectors, large experimental facilities and data handling, both for accelerator and non-accelerator based experiments. It also covers applications in medicine and life sciences. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the "Particle Physics Reference Library" provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material in the well-known Landolt-Boernstein series on particle physics, accelerators and detectors (volumes 21A, B1,B2,C), which took stock of the field approximately one decade ago. Central to this new initiative is publication under full open access

"Radiation detection is key to experimental nuclear physics as well as underpinning a wide range of applications in nuclear decommissioning, homeland security and medical imaging. This book presents the state-of-the-art in radiation detection of light and heavy ions, beta particles, gamma rays and neutrons. The underpinning physics of different detector technologies is presented, and their performance is compared and contrasted. Detector technology likely to be encountered in contemporary international laboratories is also emphasized. There is a strong focus on experimental design and mapping detector technology to the needs of a particular measurement problem. This book will be invaluable to PhD students in experimental nuclear physics and nuclear technology, as well as undergraduate students encountering projects based on radiation detection for the first time. Part of IOP Series in Nuclear Spectroscopy and Nuclear Structure." -- Prové de l'editor.