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Multiplicity counting from fission chamber signals in the current mode
- Source :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 839:92-101
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- In nuclear safeguards, estimation of sample parameters using neutron-based non-destructive assay methods is traditionally based on multiplicity counting with thermal neutron detectors in the pulse mode. These methods in general require multi-channel analysers and various dead time correction methods. This paper proposes and elaborates on an alternative method, which is based on fast neutron measurements with fission chambers in the current mode. A theory of "multiplicity counting" with fission chambers is developed by incorporating Bohnel's concept of superfission [1] into a master equation formalism, developed recently by the present authors for the statistical theory of fission chamber signals [2,3]. Explicit expressions are derived for the first three central auto- and cross moments (cumulants) of the signals of up to three detectors. These constitute the generalisation of the traditional Campbell relationships for the case when the incoming events represent a compound Poisson distribution. Because now the expressions contain the factorial moments of the compound source, they contain the same information as the singles, doubles and triples rates of traditional multiplicity counting. The results show that in addition to the detector efficiency, the detector pulse shape also enters the formulas; hence, the method requires a more involved calibration than the traditional method of multiplicity counting. However, the method has some advantages by not needing dead time corrections, as well as having a simpler and more efficient data processing procedure, in particular for cross-correlations between different detectors, than the traditional multiplicity counting methods.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Fission
020209 energy
Detector
Multiplicity (mathematics)
02 engineering and technology
Dead time
01 natural sciences
Neutron temperature
Nuclear physics
Compound Poisson distribution
0103 physical sciences
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Neutron
Statistical physics
Statistical theory
Instrumentation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01689002
- Volume :
- 839
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........885c85faafd447c25841a41ce37fb79f