Neutron spectrometry with He-3 proportional counters

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ANIMMA.2011.6172851· OSTI ID:22039865

Manolopoulou, M; Fragopoulou, M; Stoulos, S; Vagena, E ^[1]; Westmeier, W ^[2]; Zamani, M ^[1]

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1. School of Physics, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 541 24, Hellas (Greece)
2. Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg 35032 (Germany)

Helium filled proportional counters are widely used in the field of neutron detection and spectrometry. In this work the response of a commercially available He-3 counter is studied experimentally and calculated with Monte Carlo for the neutron energy range from 230 keV up to about 7 MeV. The calculated response of the system is used to determine neutron yield energy distribution emitted from an extended {sup nat}U/Pb assembly irradiated with 1.6 GeV deuterons. The results are in acceptable agreement with the calculated neutron distribution with DCM-DEM code. (authors)

• OSTI ID: 22039865
• 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; 17 refs.; IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1124I-CDR
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DEUTERONS
ENERGY SPECTRA
GEV RANGE
HE-3 COUNTERS
KEV RANGE
MEV RANGE
MONTE CARLO METHOD
NATURAL URANIUM
NEUTRON DETECTION
NEUTRON EMISSION
NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY
PLUTONIUM