This study measured the amount of pollution of fast and slow neutrons generated from a Elekta Synergy linear accelerator, using various photons and electrons and two bubble detectors, BDT and BD-PND. The BDT bubble detector is preferentially sensitive to thermal neutrons. The BDPND is the recommended detector for personal neutron dosimetry.First, 10-MV photon radiation fields of 40×40 cm, 30×30...

Background: A Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) facility, based on a DT neutron generator, with the final goal to find out a potential, alternative, solution to existing BNCT treatment facilities which are based on nuclear reactors is examined. Materials and Methods: With the aim of the MCNP4B Monte Carlo code different beam-shaping assembly (BSA) configurations were considered. Lead was sel...

The production of fast neutrons (1 MeV 1 GeV) in high energy muon-nucleus interactions is poorly understood, yet it is fundamental to the understanding of the background in many underground experiments. The aim of the present experiment (CERN NA55) was to measure spallation neutrons produced by 190 GeV/c muons scattering on carbon target. We have investigated the energy spectrum and angular dis...

Fast neutrons are useful for activation analysis of several light elements. For example, oxygen analyses are routinely made in our reactor laboratory and elsewhere by the 160(n, p)]6N reaction. The threshold for this reaction is over 10 MeV. Napier et al. ~) have described a device which was intended to convert thermal neutrons into 14 MeV neutrons by the reaction sequence 6Li(n, o~)3H ... 2H(3...