Tomographic Reconstruction of the Neutron Time-Energy Spectrum from a Dense Plasma Focus

Conference · Wed Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2018

OSTI ID:1493926

Catenacci, Jared ^[1]; Constantino, Derek ^[1]; Gall, Brady ^[1]; Luttman, Aaron ^[1]

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1. Nevada National Security Site, Mission Support and Test Services LLC

As a pulsed neutron source, a Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) has a wide range of applications including active interrogation of special nuclear materials. In order to measure the material properties of interest with high accuracy and low uncertainties, the properties of the neutron pulse generated by the DPF must be well characterized including the peak neutron energy and the neutron energy density. These quantities can be inferred by measuring neutron counts on a collection of radiation detectors at difference distances using time-of-flight (TOF) principles.

• Research Organization: Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), North Las Vegas, NV (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
• DOE Contract Number: DE-NA0003624
• OSTI ID: 1493926
• Report Number(s): DOE/NV/03624-0073
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2018 Conference on Data Analysis, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 7-9, 2018
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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