Bystander effects have been observed repeatedly in mammalian cells following photon and alpha particle irradiation. However, few studies have been performed to investigate bystander effects arising from neutron irradiation. Here we asked whether neutrons also induce a bystander effect in two normal human lymphoblastoid cell lines. These cells were exposed to fast neutrons produced by targeting ...

Object recognition memory and contextual fear conditioning task performance in adult C57BL/6 mice exposed to cranial fast neutron irradiation (0.8 Gy) were examined to evaluate hippocampus-related behavioral dysfunction following acute exposure to relatively low doses of fast neutrons. In addition, hippocampal neurogenesis changes in adult murine brain after cranial irradiation were analyzed us...

Resistivity ρ(T), Hall coefficient RH(T), superconducting transition temperature Tc and slopes of the upper critical field dHc2/dT were studied in (Ba1-xKx)Fe2As2 (x = 0.218, 0.356, 0.531) single crystals irradiated with fast neutrons. It is found that dTc/dρSC-the rate of decreasing Tc as a function of the ρSC (ρSC is the resistivity at T = Tc)-linearly increases with concentration x. Slow cha...

The preliminary results of a programme of measurements of the effects of fast neutron irradiation on the performance of the Hamamatsu APDs proposed for the barrel ECAL in CMS are reported.

Fast neutron activation analysis has been applied to bulk carbon detection. DT-neutron generator emitting 14.1 MeV neutrons was used as a source. Prompt 4.44 gammas from the inelastic scattering on were detected using 30% HPGe semiconductor gamma spectrometer shielded primary beam. The sensitivity of experimental setup is discussed. Keywords: Activation analysis; neutrons; Gamma spectrometry.

In this paper, a method is introduced which allows a quick and accurate evaluation of the overall transmutation rate of a nuclide in fast and thermal neutron spectra. The method is applied to Am, a main contributor to the waste toxicity in the nuclear fuel cycle. Results show good agreement with the detailed calculations using ORIGEN code. 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

For the first time the emission of neutron bursts in the process of high-voltage discharge in air was observed. Experiments were carried out at an average electric field strength of ∼1  MV·m(-1) and discharge current of ∼10  kA. Two independent methods (CR-39 track detectors and plastic scintillation detectors) registered neutrons within the range from thermal energies up to energies above 10 M...