Response of a silicon PIN photodiode to an Am-Be neutron source

✍ Scribed by G. Adamiec; M.P. Iñiguez; A. Lorente; M. Voytchev; E. Gallego

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 243 KB
• Volume: 534
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.06.145

✦ Synopsis

In the present work the application of a PIN photodiode with 6 LiF and polyethylene converters as a neutron dosimeter is investigated. The response of the photodiode with the 6 LiF inside a 25 cm diameter paraffin sphere was measured at different distances from a bare Am-Be source. Similar measurements were performed with a 4 mm thick polyethylene converter. Then, a comparison was made with the dose equivalent calibration curve for this source and the sensitivities were derived for the two detector configurations.