1. Design and performance of a hybrid fast and thermal neutron detector
- Author
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Henry T. Wong, Anil Sonay, V. D. Sharma, Manoj Kumar Singh, S.W. Yang, Hau-Bin Li, F. K. Lin, İbrahim Yildirim, V. Singh, V. S. Subrahmanyam, Arun Kumar Soma, G. Kiran Kumar, G. Asryan, L. Singh, J. Li, M. Deniz, Qian Yue, M. Agartioglu, Shin-Ted Lin, Mehmet Zeyrek, and OpenMETU
- Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Liquid scintillator ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Nuclear Theory ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Scintillator ,N-gamma discrimination ,01 natural sciences ,Spectral line ,Nuclear physics ,Optics ,0103 physical sciences ,Bc501a ,Calibration ,Neutron detection ,Neutron ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Instrumentation ,Physics ,Pulse-shape discrimination ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,Detector ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,Neutron temperature ,Characterization (materials science) ,business - Abstract
We report the performance and characterization of a custom-built hybrid detector consisting of BC501A liquid scintillator for fast neutrons and BC702 scintillator for thermal neutrons. The calibration and the resolution of the BC501A liquid scintillator detector are performed. The event identification via Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) technique is developed in order to distinguish gamma, fast and thermal neutrons. Monte Carlo simulation packages are developed in GEANT4 to obtain actual neutron energy spectrum from the measured recoil spectrum. The developed methods are tested by reconstruction of 241AmBe(\alpha, n) neutron spectrum., Comment: 12 pages, 32 figures
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- 2017