1. A large area, high counting rate micromegas-based neutron detector for BNCT
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Fang, Zhujun, Zhang, Zhiyong, Shi, Bin, Jiang, Wei, Liu, Xianke, He, Siqi, Chen, Jun, Cao, Ping, Liu, Jianbei, Zhou, Yi, Shao, Ming, Qu, Botian, Zhang, Shufeng, and Wang, Qian
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors - Abstract
Beam monitoring and evaluation are very important to boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), and a variety of detectors have been developed for these applications. However, most of the detectors used in BNCT only have a small detection area, leading to the inconvenience of the full-scale 2-D measurement of the beam. Based on micromegas technology, we designed a neutron detector with large detection area and high counting rate. This detector has a detection area of 288 mm multiples 288 mm and can measure thermal, epithermal, and fast neutrons with different detector settings. The BNCT experiments demonstrated that this detector has a very good 2-D imaging performance for the thermal, epithermal, fast neutron and gamma components, a highest counting rate of 94 kHz/channel, and a good linearity response to the beam power. Additionally, the flux fraction of each component can be calculated based on the measurement results. The Am-Be neutron source experiment indicates that this detector has a spatial resolution of approximately 1.4 mm, meeting the requirements of applications in BNCT. It is evident that this micromegas-based neutron detector with a large area and high counting rate capability has great development prospects in BNCT beam monitoring and evaluation applications.
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- 2023
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