{"id":912,"date":"2022-08-29T09:09:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2022-08-29T09:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:09:51","slug":"advantages-of-bismuth-loaded-plastic-scintillators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/advantages-of-bismuth-loaded-plastic-scintillators\/912.html","title":{"rendered":"Advantages of bismuth loaded plastic scintillators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plastic scintillators are widely deployed radiation detectors due to their low cost and environmental ruggedness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their effectiveness, however, is limited by their low atomic number resulting in low stopping power and poor photopeak efficiency. Here, we compare two different Bi-loaded <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/Scintillators\/Plastic-Scintillators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plastic scintillator<\/a><\/strong> formulations to conventional plastic, demonstrating improved spectroscopy and stopping power at the ~18 in3 scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One approach, Bi-pivalate plastics, uses conventional fluors and may be used as a drop-in replacement for currently deployed plastics such as EJ200. The other approach, Bismuth Loaded Iridium-complex Plastics (BLIP), uses an Iridium-based fluor for higher light yield and higher Bi loading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic scintillators are widely deployed radiatio &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}