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Design and testing of a fiber-coupled fast neutron scintillation detector for low-power research reactors

Dupont-Bembinoff, Alexis Paul Boris Claude  
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Pakari, Oskari Ville  
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Clément, Daniel
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2025
EPJ Web of Conferences

We present a new fiber-coupled organic scintillator fast neutron detector. Plastic scintillators are used in many applications to detect fast neutrons and gamma rays. The interest in small, fiber-coupled scintillation detectors is in their ability to perform high-resolution neutron flux measurements to ultimately provide multi-physics flux data in research nuclear reactors. Such measurements are planned in the framework of the EURATOM EVEREST project, specifically in the JSI-TRIGA and BME reactors to produce data for code validation. A 5x5x5 mm EJ-276D scintillator was tested with and without optical fiber coupling to a PMT with Pu-Be and 137 Cs sources. The Pulse Shape Discrimination histograms with coupling were still showing a region of interest for neutron detection. We produced a prototype reactor sensor with a surface of 1 mm 2 (V=0.3 mm 3 ) for high resolution experiments. The 0.3 mm 3 scintillators were coupled to a 20 m optical fiber for a set of experiments with a strong Co 60 ( ≈ 250 GBq) source and in the zero-power reactor CROCUS. The neutron detection capability was assessed in CROCUS for different power levels. The fiber-coupled small-sized scintillators have shown a linear response up to 25 W (total flux around 3.8x10 8 cm −2 .s −1 ). Ongoing developments include testing alternative scintillation materials such as stilbene and organic glass. Future work will focus on experiments in the JSI-TRIGA reactor at higher neutron fluxes and smaller detector volumes.

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