Detection of several targets (U, Be , D 2 O) interest to national security has been achieved at Purdue University’s 6 MV X-ray clinical linear accelerator (CLINAC), from photoneutron/fission induced neutron signatures using a Centrifugally Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detector (CTMFD). Traditional detection schemes were saturated and ineffective under the intense (to ∼ 10 4 R/h) photon environmen...

Some recent studies in Italy have focused on the possibility of exploiting clinical high energy electron linear accelerators, normally used in photon radiotherapy, as photo-neutrons source for in-hospital neutron medical applications. In-Hospital photo-neutron radiotherapy extends the possibilities of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) to external treatment of diffused tumors when other metho...

The dipole response of stable and unstable neutron-rich oxygen nuclei of masses A = 17 to A = 22 has been investigated experimentally utilizing electromagnetic excitation in heavy-ion collisions at beam energies about 600 MeV/nucleon. A kinematically complete measurement of the neutron decay channel in inelastic scattering of the secondary beam projectiles from a Pb target was performed. Differ...

We study mutual dissociation of heavy nuclei in peripheral collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. Earlier this process was proposed for beam luminosity monitoring via simultaneous registration of forward and backward neutrons in zero degree calorimeters at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Electromagnetic dissociation of heavy ions is considered in the framework of the Weizsäcker-Williams met...