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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
May. 12, 2020
United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, San Diego, CA (US);
Kyle Alan Nelson, San Diego, CA (US);
United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A sensor for spectroscopic measurement of alpha and beta particles includes first and second layers, a photomultiplier, and an analyzer. A first material of the first layer scintillates a first stream of photons for each of the alpha particles. However, the beta particles pass through the first layer. A second material of the second layer scintillates a second stream of photons for each of the beta particles, but passes the first stream of photons for each alpha particle. The photomultiplier amplifies the first and second streams of photons for the alpha and beta particles into an electrical signal. The electrical signal includes a respective pulse for each of the alpha and beta particles. From the electrical signal, the analyzer determines a respective energy of each of the alpha and/or beta particles from a shape of the respective pulse for each of the alpha and beta particles.