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Title: Use of the WNR spallation neutron source at LAMPF to determine the absolute efficiency of a neutron scintillation detector

Abstract

Prompt fission neutron spectrum measurements at the University of Massachusetts Lowell 5.5 MV Van de Graaff accelerator laboratory require that the neutron detector efficiency be well known over a neutron energy range of 100 keV to 20 MeV. The efficiency of the detector, has been determined for energies greater than 5.0 MeV using the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) white neutron source at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) in a pulsed beam, time-of-flight (TOF) experiment. Carbon matched polyethylene and graphite scatterers were used to obtain a hydrogen spectrum. The detector efficiency was determined using the well known H(n,n) scattering cross section. Results are compared to the detector efficiency calculation program SCINFUL available from the Radiation Shielding Information Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Authors:
; ; ; ;  [1];  [2]
  1. University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Applied Physics
  2. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10156923
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-94-1563; CONF-940507-17
ON: DE94012896; TRN: 94:012105
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: International conference on nuclear data for science and technology: nuclear data for the twenty-first century,Gatlinburg, TN (United States),9-13 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 07 ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; NEUTRON DETECTORS; EFFICIENCY; NEUTRON SOURCE FACILITIES; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD; CROSS SECTIONS; NEUTRON REACTIONS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; HYDROGEN; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; 440101; 070201; GENERAL DETECTORS OR MONITORS AND RADIOMETRIC INSTRUMENTS; DESIGN, FABRICATION, AND OPERATION

Citation Formats

Staples, P A, Egan, J J, Kegel, G H.R., Woodring, M L, DeSimone, D J, and Lisowski, P W. Use of the WNR spallation neutron source at LAMPF to determine the absolute efficiency of a neutron scintillation detector. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Staples, P A, Egan, J J, Kegel, G H.R., Woodring, M L, DeSimone, D J, & Lisowski, P W. Use of the WNR spallation neutron source at LAMPF to determine the absolute efficiency of a neutron scintillation detector. United States.
Staples, P A, Egan, J J, Kegel, G H.R., Woodring, M L, DeSimone, D J, and Lisowski, P W. 1994. "Use of the WNR spallation neutron source at LAMPF to determine the absolute efficiency of a neutron scintillation detector". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10156923.
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title = {Use of the WNR spallation neutron source at LAMPF to determine the absolute efficiency of a neutron scintillation detector},
author = {Staples, P A and Egan, J J and Kegel, G H.R. and Woodring, M L and DeSimone, D J and Lisowski, P W},
abstractNote = {Prompt fission neutron spectrum measurements at the University of Massachusetts Lowell 5.5 MV Van de Graaff accelerator laboratory require that the neutron detector efficiency be well known over a neutron energy range of 100 keV to 20 MeV. The efficiency of the detector, has been determined for energies greater than 5.0 MeV using the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) white neutron source at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) in a pulsed beam, time-of-flight (TOF) experiment. Carbon matched polyethylene and graphite scatterers were used to obtain a hydrogen spectrum. The detector efficiency was determined using the well known H(n,n) scattering cross section. Results are compared to the detector efficiency calculation program SCINFUL available from the Radiation Shielding Information Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994},
month = {Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994}
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