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Title: PINS Measurements and Simulations for Stand-Off Detection of High Explosives

Abstract

There has been some interest in the ability of Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy System's (PINS) ability to detect high explosives at a distance. In order to assess the system's ability to perform this task, laboratory experiments on simulated or mock explosives and Monte Carlo simulations using MCNP on both mock and real explosives have been performed. The simulations and experiments on mock explosives have essentially identical configurations, allowing the models to be confirmed with experiment. This provides greater confidence in the simulations on real explosives without the need for experiment on live explosives.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE - NA
OSTI Identifier:
1033916
Report Number(s):
INL/EXT-11-22803
TRN: US201203%%269
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES; DETECTION; EXPLOSIVES; NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY; IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY; Explosives Detection; PGNAA

Citation Formats

Seabury, E H. PINS Measurements and Simulations for Stand-Off Detection of High Explosives. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.2172/1033916.
Seabury, E H. PINS Measurements and Simulations for Stand-Off Detection of High Explosives. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1033916
Seabury, E H. 2011. "PINS Measurements and Simulations for Stand-Off Detection of High Explosives". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1033916. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1033916.
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title = {PINS Measurements and Simulations for Stand-Off Detection of High Explosives},
author = {Seabury, E H},
abstractNote = {There has been some interest in the ability of Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy System's (PINS) ability to detect high explosives at a distance. In order to assess the system's ability to perform this task, laboratory experiments on simulated or mock explosives and Monte Carlo simulations using MCNP on both mock and real explosives have been performed. The simulations and experiments on mock explosives have essentially identical configurations, allowing the models to be confirmed with experiment. This provides greater confidence in the simulations on real explosives without the need for experiment on live explosives.},
doi = {10.2172/1033916},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1033916}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
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