Thermal neutron radiative capture on cadmium as a counting technique at the INES beam line at ISIS: A preliminary investigation of detector cross-talk.

Authors :: Festa G
Grazzi F
Pietropaolo A
Scherillo A
Schooneveld EM
Source :: Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine [Appl Radiat Isot] 2017 Dec; Vol. 130, pp. 264-269. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Oct 13.
Publication Year :: 2017
Abstract: Experimental tests are presented that assess the cross-talk level among three scintillation detectors used as neutron counters exploiting the thermal neutron radiative capture on Cd. The measurements were done at the INES diffractometer operating at the ISIS spallation neutron source (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK). These tests follow a preliminary set of measurements performed on the same instrument to study the effectiveness of this thermal neutron counting strategy in neutron diffraction measurements, typically performed on INES using squashed <superscript>3</superscript> He filled gas tubes. The experimental data were collected in two different geometrical configurations of the detectors and compared to results of Monte Carlo simulations, performed using the MCNP code.<br /> (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Language :: English
ISSN :: 1872-9800
Volume :: 130
Database :: MEDLINE
Journal :: Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 29054050
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.10.020

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