Data used in "The Backscatter Gating method for time, energy, and position resolution characterization of long form factor organic scintillators" by Hunter N. Ratliff et al.

This repository contains the raw experimental and PHITS-simulated data used in the JINST article “The Backscatter Gating method for time, energy, and position resolution characterization of long form factor organic scintillators” by Hunter N. Ratliff et al., available at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/07/P07002 (the accepted manuscript can also be found at https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3145287 and https://hratliff.com/publications/).

The data consists of three top-level directories, each with various subdirectories.  Within the “PHITS-simulated-data” directory are the PHITS simulations (including input and output files) used in producing Figures 4 and 5 in the manuscript, showing energy spectra in the bar for BSG events from a Cs-137 emission for placement of the source on the bar and on the BSG detector and with spacings between the bar and BSG detector of 20, 80, and 150 mm, along with the energy-dependent spatial distribution of these recoil electrons in the bar.

The other two top-level directories contain raw data produced by the CAEN CoMPASS software when acquiring data experimentally.  In the analysis for each measurement, the contents of the “RAW” folders were used.  The “Energy-calibrations-of-CeBr3” directory contains the energy spectra of the CeBr3 detector (used as the BSG detector) when exposed to a variety of radioactive sources, used together to energy-calibrate the CeBr3 detector.  The “Backscatter-gating-measurements” directory contains all of the list-mode data acquired with CoMPASS used for all of the other experimental measurements presented in the manuscript.  It contains subdirectories for varied sources, source positions along the bar, distances between the bar and BSG detector, measurements with the source affixed to the BSG detector instead, and a few miscellaneous measurements.  The “images” directories within each measurement’s directory (at the same level as the “RAW” folders) contain images produced by the analysis script written for this work used for diagnostics and presenting analyzed data.