A Position Sensitive Proportional Counter for Neutron Radiography

Development and performance of a position-sensitive proportional avalanche counter tracking system

Most of our current understanding in nuclear physics has come from using stable targets and beams. Stable nuclei represent only a small fraction of the total nuclei that can exist, but do not exhibit many of the exotic proprieties seen in nuclei far from stability, such as halos [1]. The ability to study unstable nuclei has opened up a vast new range of physics to be explored. The decay of thes...

Boron-Lined Multichamber and Conventional Neutron Proportional Counter Tests

Characterization of a Neutron Collimator for Neutron Radiography

At the ENEA TRIGA research reactor (Casaccia Research Center, Rome), a new neutron collimator has been designed and installed at the neutron tangential channel. This collimator, that is part of a neutron/X-ray facility for NDT analysis, was experimentally characterized and optimized in terms of thermal neutron flux, its spatial/energetic distribution, photon air KERMA and effective beam diamete...

Front-end electronics for high rate, position sensitive neutron detectors

Advanced neutron detectors for experiments at new spallation sources will require greater counting rate capabilities than previously attainable. This necessitates careful design of both detector and readout electronics. As part of a new instrument for protein crystallography at LANSCE, we are constructing a detector whose concept was described previously (IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-46 (1999) 191...

Novel concept for neutron detection: proportional counter filled with 10B nanoparticle aerosol

The high neutron detection efficiency, good gamma-ray discrimination and non-toxicity of 3He made of proportional counters filled with this gas the obvious choice for neutron detection, particularly in radiation portal monitors (RPM), used to control the illicit transport of nuclear material, of which neutron detectors are key components. 3He is very rare and during the last decade this gas has...