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Madden, Amanda Christine; Schirato, Richard C.; Swift, Alicia L.; Cutler, Theresa Elizabeth; Mayo, Douglas R.; Hunter, James F.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) (United States)2017
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) (United States)2017
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[en] We present that Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a prototype of a high-energy neutron time-of-flight imaging system for the non-destructive evaluation of dense, massive, and/or high atomic number objects. High-energy neutrons provide the penetrating power, and thus the high dynamic range necessary to image internal features and defects of such objects. The addition of the time gating capability allows for scatter rejection when paired with a pulsed monoenergetic beam, or neutron energy selection when paired with a pulsed broad-spectrum neutron source. The Time Gating to Reject Scatter and Select Energy (TiGReSSE) system was tested at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center’s (LANSCE) Weapons Nuclear Research (WNR) facility, a spallation neutron source, to provide proof of concept measurements and to characterize the instrument response. This paper will show results of several objects imaged during this run cycle. In addition, results from system performance metrics such as the Modulation Transfer Function and the Detective Quantum Efficiency measured as a function of neutron energy, characterize the current system performance and inform the next generation of neutron imaging instrument.
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LA-UR--16-24589; OSTIID--1356132; AC52-06NA25396; Available from http://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1356132; DOE Accepted Manuscript full text, or the publishers Best Available Version will be available free of charge after the embargo period
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science; ISSN 0018-9499; ; v. PP(99); vp
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