%0 Journal Article
%T Characterization of a Li-6 loaded liquid organic scintillator for fast neutron spectrometry and thermal neutron detection
%A C. D. Bass
%A E. J. Beise
%A H. Breuer
%A C. R. Heimbach
%A T. Langford
%A J. S. Nico
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.03.053
%X The characterization of a liquid scintillator incorporating an aqueous solution of enriched lithium chloride to produce a scintillator with 0.40% Li-6 is presented, including the performance of the scintillator in terms of its optical properties and neutron response. The scintillator was incorporated into a fast neutron spectrometer, and the light output spectra from 2.5 MeV, 14.1 MeV, and Cf-252 neutrons were measured using capture-gated coincidence techniques. The spectrometer was operated without coincidence to perform thermal neutron measurements. Possible improvements in spectrometer performance are discussed.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4036v2