The suitability of large area drift chambers as the technology choice for the Cosmic Ray Inspection and Passive Tomography (CRIPT) project

Conference · Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ANIMMA.2011.6172947· OSTI ID:22039779

Anghel, V ^[1]; Armitage, J ^[2]; Botte, J; Boudjemline, K ^[2]; Bryman, D; Bueno, J ^[3]; Charles, E ^[4]; Cousins, T ^[5]; Erlandson, A ^[2]; Gallant, G ^[4]; Jewett, C; Jonkmans, G ^[1]; Liu, Z ^[3]; Noel, S ^[5]; Oakham, F G ^[2]; Stocki, T J ^[6]; Thompson, M ^[1]; Waller, D ^[7]

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1. Atomic Energy Canada Ltd., Chalk River, ON K0J 1J0 (Canada)
2. Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON (Canada)
3. Advanced Applied Physics Solutions, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
4. Canadian Border Services Agency, Ottawa, ON K1A 0L8 (Canada)
5. International Safety Research, Ottawa, ON K2E 7J6 (Canada)
6. Health Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9 (Canada)
7. Defence Research Development Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0Z4 (Canada)

The CRIPT project brings together several Canadian institutions, concerned with the detection of Special Nuclear Materials (SNM), addressing a requirement at ports-of-entry for detection of SNM in the many thousands of containers that flow into and out of Canada every day, while at the same time providing a way of monitoring the contents of nuclear waste storage containers, for waste management and non-proliferation reasons. The scale of these applications is large - typically tens of cubic metres, requiring detectors that can cover a large area at a minimum cost. The CRIPT project considered drift chambers adapted from high energy physics experience, as one of its technology choices. We report here on the performance of a full scale prototype, which covers an area of 2.4 m x 1.2 m with only 6 readout channels, and provides a 2D data point with accuracies (in x and z) of around 2 mm. (authors)

• OSTI ID: 22039779
• Resource Relation: Conference: ANIMMA 2011: 2. International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications, Ghent (Belgium), 6-9 Jun 2011; Other Information: Country of input: France; 12 refs.; IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1124I-CDR
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ACCURACY
COSMIC RADIATION
COST
DETECTION
DRIFT CHAMBERS
HARBORS
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
INSPECTION
PERFORMANCE
PROLIFERATION
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
READOUT SYSTEMS
SPENT FUEL CASKS
TOMOGRAPHY