Current status on plastic scintillators modifications

Guillaume H.V. Bertrand (1) , Matthieu Hamel (1) , Fabien Sguerra (1)

1 LCAE - Laboratoire Capteurs et Architectures Electroniques

Recent developments of plastic scintillators are re-viewed, from 2000 to March 2014, distributed in two different chapters. First chapter deals with the chemical modifications of the polymer backbone, whereas modifications of the fluorescent probe are presented in the second chapter. All examples are provided with the scope of detection of various radiation particles. The main characteristics of these newly created scintillators and their detection properties are given.

Keywords: fluorescence; plastic scintillator; detection of radiation particles; instrumentation; nuclear instrumentation; ionizing radiation; detector

Domains: Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; Polymers; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]

Guillaume H.V. Bertrand, Matthieu Hamel, Fabien Sguerra. Current status on plastic scintillators modifications. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2014, 20, pp.15660 - 15685. ⟨10.1002/chem.201404093⟩. ⟨cea-01827633⟩