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Advances on the development of the detection system of C-BORD’s rapidly relocatable tagged neutron inspection
- Source :
- International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, World Scientific Publishing, 2018, 48, pp.1860125. ⟨10.1142/s2010194518601254⟩, International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, 2018, 48, pp.1860125. ⟨10.1142/s2010194518601254⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The European H2020 project entitled “effective container inspection at border control point” (C-BORD) focuses on the development and in-situ tests of a comprehensive, cost-effective solution for the generalized non-intrusive inspection (NII) of containers and large-volume freight at the European Union border. The opening procedures of suspect containers are time consuming and expensive for economical and safety reasons; therefore, to reduce such operations, the C-BORD project aims to develop a set of technologies that can improve the quality of NII. Among these techniques, a tagged neutron inspection system is being developed in the C-BORD project. It will be a second-line defense system, to be used on sealed containers to detect explosives, illicit drugs, and chemical agents in suspect voxels (elementary volume units). This method employs a beam of tagged neutrons and a set of NaI(Tl) and LaBr[Formula: see text](Ce) scintillators, which will be used to detect prompt gamma rays produced by the neutron interactions. Here we report the advances on the development of the C-BORD’s rapidly relocatable tagged neutron inspection system, in particular the comprehensive characterization of the NaI(Tl) and LaBr[Formula: see text](Ce) gamma detectors (time and energy resolutions, high-count-rate behavior), the digital analysis for time-coincidence measurements and the data acquisition system (DAQ).
- Subjects :
- LaBr3(Ce) scintillator
Computer science
Real-time computing
detection
illicit drugs
Digital analysis
Scintillator
[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]
plastic scintillator
01 natural sciences
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Data acquisition
NaI(Tl) scintillator
0103 physical sciences
non-intrusive inspection
media_common.cataloged_instance
Neutron
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
European union
nuclear instrumentation
media_common
instrumentation
detector
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Detector
resolution
gamma-rays
explosives
gamma rays
chemical agents
Chemical agents
tagged neutron inspection system
border control
gamma detector
high counting rate
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, World Scientific Publishing, 2018, 48, pp.1860125. ⟨10.1142/s2010194518601254⟩, International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, 2018, 48, pp.1860125. ⟨10.1142/s2010194518601254⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a5777b44e855706ae8ae0e9c0f2b15ba