APPARATUS FOR MEASURING NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS
Abstract
An apparatus is described for analyzing the nuclear reaction products resulting from impingement of nuclear particles against a selected target material and automatically recording the number of reaction prcducts in selected energy levels. The target is bombarded by ions from a particle accelerator and the target potential is cyclicly varied over a particular energy range by a modulator. A nuclear reaction detector is lccated adjacent the target to produce pulses for each reaction product. The output from the detector and the modulator are coupled to a function sampler, for generating a pulse in respcnse to each detected event having an amplitude proportional to the amplitude of the instantaneous target potential. The later pulses are coupled to a multichannel analyzer, whereby nuclear reactions are recorded in appropriate channels of the analyzer in correspcndence with the magnitude of the energy of the impinging ions.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4230150
- Patent Number(s):
- 2895051
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-002597
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-60
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- ENGINEERING AND EQUIPMENT; ACCELERATORS; CROSS SECTIONS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY; ION BEAMS; MEASURED VALUES; MODULATION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; PULSE ANALYZERS; PULSE GENERATORS; RECORDING SYSTEMS; TARGETS
Citation Formats
Cranberg, L. APPARATUS FOR MEASURING NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS. United States: N. p., 1959.
Web.
Cranberg, L. APPARATUS FOR MEASURING NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS. United States.
Cranberg, L. Tue .
"APPARATUS FOR MEASURING NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS". United States.
@article{osti_4230150,
title = {APPARATUS FOR MEASURING NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS},
author = {Cranberg, L},
abstractNote = {An apparatus is described for analyzing the nuclear reaction products resulting from impingement of nuclear particles against a selected target material and automatically recording the number of reaction prcducts in selected energy levels. The target is bombarded by ions from a particle accelerator and the target potential is cyclicly varied over a particular energy range by a modulator. A nuclear reaction detector is lccated adjacent the target to produce pulses for each reaction product. The output from the detector and the modulator are coupled to a function sampler, for generating a pulse in respcnse to each detected event having an amplitude proportional to the amplitude of the instantaneous target potential. The later pulses are coupled to a multichannel analyzer, whereby nuclear reactions are recorded in appropriate channels of the analyzer in correspcndence with the magnitude of the energy of the impinging ions.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1959},
month = {7}
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