n/γ Pulse shape discrimination comparison of EJ301 and EJ339A liquid scintillation detectors

In this work, we evaluated the neutron-gamma discrimination capability of EJ301 and EJ339A liquid scintillation detectors via the pulse shape discrimination (PSD) method. Both simulation and experimental results are reported. The Geant4 simulation toolkit was used to model the scintillation process inside the scintillator, for neutron and gamma events, respectively. For the experiments, a high-speed digitizer was used to acquire data, which was then processed in MATLAB. This work compared the PSD performance of two liquid scintillation detectors and demonstrated the capability of Geant4 with regard to simulation of pulse shape.