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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2014
Ashley C. Stowe, Knoxville, TN (US);
Arnold Burger, Nashville, TN (US);
Pijush Bhattacharya, Nashville, TN (US);
Yevgeniy Tupitsyn, Nashville, TN (US);
Ashley C. Stowe, Knoxville, TN (US);
Arnold Burger, Nashville, TN (US);
Pijush Bhattacharya, Nashville, TN (US);
Yevgeniy Tupitsyn, Nashville, TN (US);
Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Fisk University, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
A combined thermal neutron detector and gamma-ray spectrometer system, including: a first detection medium including a lithium chalcopyrite crystal operable for detecting neutrons; a gamma ray shielding material disposed adjacent to the first detection medium; a second detection medium including one of a doped metal halide, an elpasolite, and a high Z semiconductor scintillator crystal operable for detecting gamma rays; a neutron shielding material disposed adjacent to the second detection medium; and a photodetector coupled to the second detection medium also operable for detecting the gamma rays; wherein the first detection medium and the second detection medium do not overlap in an orthogonal plane to a radiation flux. Optionally, the first detection medium includes aLiInSecrystal. Optionally, the second detection medium includes a SrI(Eu) scintillation crystal.