General considerations for effective thermal neutron shielding in detector applications Alexander Backis, Ramsey Al Jebali, Kevin Fissum, Phillip Bentley, Richard Hall-Wilton, Kalliopi Kanaki, Thomas Kittelmann and Kenneth Livingston EPJ Techn Instrum, 9 1 (2022) 8 Published online: 15 July 2022 DOI: 10.1140/epjti/s40485-022-00083-0