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Wang, Zhehui; Morris, Christopher L.; Spaulding, Randy J.; Bacon, Jeffrey D.; Borozdin, Konstantin N.; Chung, Kiwhan; Clark, Deborah J.; Green, Jesse A.; Greene, Steven J.; Hogan, Gary E.; Jason, Andrew; Lisowski, Paul W.; Makela, Mark F.; Mariam, Fessaha G.; Miyadera, Haruo; Murray, Matthew M.; Saunders, Alexander; Wysocki, Frederick J.; Gray, Frederick E.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States). Funding organisation: US Department of Energy (United States)2010
Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States). Funding organisation: US Department of Energy (United States)2010
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[en] A segmented neutron calorimeter using nine 4-inch x 4-inch x 48-inch plastic scintillators and sixteen 2-inch-diameter 48-inch-long 200-mbar-3He drift tubes is described. The correlated scintillator and neutron-capture events provide a means for n/γ discrimination, critical to the neutron calorimetry when the γ background is substantial and the γ signals are comparable in amplitude to the neutron signals. A single-cell prototype was constructed and tested. It can distinguish between a 17N source and a 252Cf source when the γ and the thermal neutron background are sufficiently small. The design and construction of the nine-cell segmented detector assembly follow the same principle. By recording the signals from individual scintillators, additional γ-subtraction schemes, such as through the time-of-flight between two scintillators, may also be used. The variations of the light outputs from different parts of a scintillator bar are less than 10%.
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1 Jan 2010; 11 p; 18. Topical conference on high temperature plasma diagnostics; Wildwood, NJ (United States); 16-20 May 2010; LA-UR--10-3571; AC52-06NA25396; Available from http://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-10-03571; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1015242-t1V5WN/
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