401. A low-mass neutron flux monitor for the n_TOF facility at CERN
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S. David, G. Tagliente, G. Vannini, F. Käppeler, E. Savvidis, F. Rejmund, M. Terrani, V. Chepel, L. Ferrant, A. Lindote, D. Karamanis, P. Baumann, T. Papaevangelou, E. Chiaveri, Per Carlson, A. Perez-Parra, P. E. Koehler, P. F. Mastinu, Corrie S. Moreau, J. Salgado, V. Peskov, B. Berthier, A. Poch, M. Loriggiola, S. Andriamonje, J.C. Soares, G. Cortes, C. Borcea, C. Eleftheriadis, M. Embid-Segura, M. Vincente-Vincente, W.I. Furman, H. Leeb, A. Goverdovski, E. Mínguez, F. Neves, L. Ferreira-Lourenco, Y. Kadi, D. Villamarin-Fernandez, H. Frais-Koelbl, V. Lacoste, P. M. Milazzo, D. Cortina, Manuel Lozano, Gerald Badurek, A. Angelopoulos, Roberto Capote, P.A. Assimakopoulos, F. Voss, F. Becvar, I. Duran, N. Tsangas, M. Rosetti, R. C. Haight, Nicola Colonna, K. Wisshak, H. Álvarez, J. L. Tain, L. Zanini, E. Jericha, Thomas Rauscher, C. Paradela, Vasilis Vlachoudis, R. Dolfini, M.I. Lopes, R. Ferreira-Marques, R. Vlastou, H. Beer, L. Perrot, C. Tapia, I. F. Gonçalves, H. Wendler, K.G. Ioannides, F. Gramegna, Saed Dababneh, George Kitis, E. Kossionides, F. Gunsing, E. Boscolo-Marchi, Sigfrido Boffi, Michael Wiescher, A. Ventura, D. Cano-Ott, E. Gonzalez-Romero, Y. Giomataris, Ralf Plag, J. Benlliure, Marco Radici, N. Janeva, C. Rubbia, P. Pavlopoulos, Ch.O. Bacri, A. Plukis, E. Griesmayer, A.J.P.L. Policarpo, Subramanian Raman, S. Lukic, N. Bustreo, S. Marrone, A. J. M. Plompen, José M. Martínez-Val, U. Abbondanno, José Manuel Perlado, Heinz Oberhummer, G. Rudolf, W. Rapp, Michael Heil, P. Calviño, E. Berthomieux, V. Konovalov, C. Pretel, James L. Cox, V. Ketlerov, G. Aerts, P. Cennini, A. Herrera-Martinez, Arnaud Ferrari, C. Stephan, S. O'Brien, Alberto Mengoni, R. Terlizzi, A. Molina-Coballes, L. Tavora, P. Rullhusen, J. Pancin, S. Markov, S. Marigo, M. Dahlfors, P. Vaz, Aaron Couture, A. Pavlik, C. Domingo-Pardo, Rene Reifarth, A. Kelic, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, C. Coceva, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and TOF
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TheoryofComputation_COMPUTATIONBYABSTRACTDEVICES ,Silicon ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,01 natural sciences ,ComputingMethodologies_ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Neutron ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Physics ,Large Hadron Collider ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Scattering ,Detector ,TheoryofComputation_GENERAL ,Neutron radiation ,Neutron capture ,ComputingMethodologies_PATTERNRECOGNITION ,chemistry ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,Low Mass - Abstract
A small-mass system has been developed for monitoring the flux of neutrons with energy up to 1 MeV at the new time-of-flight facility at CERN, n_TOF. The monitor is based on a thin Mylar foil with a 6Li deposit, placed in the neutron beam, and an array of Silicon detectors, placed outside the beam, for detecting the products of the 6Li(n, alpha)³H reaction. The small amount of material on the beam ensures a minimal perturbation of the flux and minimizes the background related to scattered neutrons. Moreover, a further reduction of the gamma-ray background has been obtained by constructing the scattering chamber hosting the device in carbon fibre. A detailed description of the flux monitor is here presented, together with the characteristics of the device, in terms of efficiency, resolution and induced background. The use of the monitor in the measurement of neutron capture cross-sections at n_TOF is discussed