TABLE OF CONTENTS
Organic
Scintillation Detectors
Guido H. Daub, F. Newton Hayes and Elizabeth Sullivan,
Editors
Proceedings of the University of New Mexico Conference
on Organic Scintillation Detectors
August 15-17, 1960
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................9
THE SCINTILLATION PROCESS
The Efficiency of
Organic Scintillators
J B Birks ............................................................................................................12
Study of Energy
Transfer by Quenching Experiments
Felix H Brown, Milton Furst and Hartmut Kallmann ..................................................37
On the Influence of
Brownian Motion on the Transfer of Energy in Solutions
Arye Weinreb ......................................................................................................59
SCINTILLATORS
Substituted
p-Oligophenylenes. Part I. Syntheses and Properties
H O Wirth ..........................................................................................................78
Substituted
p-Oligophenylenes. Part II. As Liquid Scintillation Solutes
G Hermann,
H J Eichhoff and U Nay .......................................................................92
A Comparative
Scintillation Study of Some Selected
Bis-Benzoxazole Solutes. Benzoxazoles
E Nyilas and J L Pinter ........................................................................................99
Hexafluorobenzene
Liquid Scintillators and Their Application
to Gamma and Fast Neutron Dose Rate Measurements
D L Williams ......................................................................................................121
Solid and Liquid
Solution Scintillators Containing Monoisopropylbiphenyl
B Lionel Funt ....................................................................................................141
Progress in Plastic
Scintillators
Louis J Basile ....................................................................................................161
The Dependence of
Pulse Height on the Molecular Structure
of the Solvent and Fluor in Organic Scintillators
Samuel
Loshaek and Stanley R Sandler ................................................................177
INTERNAL SAMPLE COUNTING ........................................................................... 197
Photomultipliers for
the Scintillation Counting of C-14 and
Tritium
J Sharpe...........................................................................................................198
New Accessories for
Liquid Scintillation Counting
Edward
Rapkin and L E Packard ...........................................................................216
Some Recent
Developments in Liquid Scintillation
Counting of Biochemical Samples
Jack D Davidson .................................................................................................232
Studies of Low-Level
Liquid Scintillation Counting of Tritium
W J
Kaufman, A Nir, G Parks and R M Hours .........................................................239
Correction for
Quenching in Liquid Scintillation Counting
of Homogeneous Samples
C T Peng ...........................................................................................................260
EXTERNAL SAMPLE DETECTORS
Landstuh1 2π Human Counter 1. Measurement of
Cesium-137 and Potassium
Charles O Onstead .............................................................................................278
Landstuh1 2π Human Counter 2. Measurement
of Contaminated Individuals
Erich Oberhausen ...............................................................................................286
Measurements
Obtained with the 2π Large Volume Counter (Genco)
and Their Comparison with the Results Obtained from
Other
Physical or Chemical Methods
Alexander A
Pfau and Georg Kallistratos ..............................................................293
Diagnostic
Radio-Vitamin B12-Absorption and Retention
Studies with Test-Radioactivities which are within the
Range of the Natural Radioactivity
Content of the Human
Body using the Landstuh1 2π -Whole Body Detector
H C Heinrich ......................................................................................................312
The Performance of
Large-Volume Plastic Scintillators
with Reference to Whole Body Counting
P R J Burch ........................................................................................................329
The New Los Alamos
Human Counter: Humco II
E C
Anderson, R L Schuch and V N Kerr ...............................................................344
Recent Scintillation
Chamber Research
G T Reynolds, D B Scarl, and R A Swanson .........................................................371
Applications of Giant
Scintillation Detectors
Frederick Reines .................................................................................................395
APPENDIX - List. of Conference Delegates .........................................................405