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Revision as of 00:12, 7 June 2007
Today Oleksiy, Tamuna, and Tony looked at the scintillator response to a californium neutron source. Two types of PMTs were use each with different scintillators. PMTs were (i) ORTEC 266 and (ii) PHOTONIS VD 119. A voltage of 700 Volts (the base drew 500 μA) was applied to the ORTEC PMT and 1200 Volts (the base drew 800 μA)to the Photonis.
The Cf-252 was placed first at the distance ~0 cm to the front edge of scintillators. (i) Signal amplitude was ~8 mV at the threshold set on the oscilloscope 2.4 mV. (ii) Signal amplitude was ~20 mV.
In the case the distance between Cf-252 and scintillators was ~3 m we had only cosmic rays events in both channels.
Material of scintillator used in case (i) was BC-420.
Our next step is to install a scaler and attempt to measure rates.