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Appl Radiat Isot. 2017 Dec;130:264-269. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.10.020. Epub 2017 Oct 13.

Thermal neutron radiative capture on cadmium as a counting technique at the INES beam line at ISIS: A preliminary investigation of detector cross-talk.

Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine

G Festa, F Grazzi, A Pietropaolo, A Scherillo, E M Schooneveld

Affiliations

  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Firenze, Italy.
  2. ENEA Centro Ricerche Frascati, Department of Fusion and Technologies for Nuclear Safety and Security, Frascati, Roma, Italy; MIFP-Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics, Via Appia Nuova 31, 00040 Marino, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].
  3. Science and Technology Facilities Council, Chilton Didcot, United Kingdom.

PMID: 29054050 DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.10.020

Abstract

Experimental tests are presented that assess the cross-talk level among three scintillation detectors used as neutron counters exploiting the thermal neutron radiative capture on Cd. The measurements were done at the INES diffractometer operating at the ISIS spallation neutron source (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK). These tests follow a preliminary set of measurements performed on the same instrument to study the effectiveness of this thermal neutron counting strategy in neutron diffraction measurements, typically performed on INES using squashed

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Keywords: Neutron detectors; Radiative capture gamma-rays; Thermal neutron counting

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