A time projection chamber for high accuracy and precision fission cross-section measurements

Heffner, M.; Asner, D. M.; Baker, R. G.; Baker, J.; Barrett, S.; Brune, C.; Bundgaard, J.; Burgett, E.; Carter, D.; Cunningham, M.; Deaven, J.; Duke, D. L.; Greife, U.; Grimes, S.; Hager, U.; Hertel, N.; Hill, T.; Isenhower, D.; Jewell, K.; King, J.; Klay, J. L.; Kleinrath, V.; Kornilov, N.; Kudo, R.; Laptev, A. B.; Leonard, M.; Loveland, W.; Massey, T. N.; McGrath, C.; Meharchand, R.; Montoya, L.; Pickle, N.; Qu, H.; Riot, V.; Ruz, J.; Sangiorgio, S.; Seilhan, B.; Sharma, S.; Snyder, L.; Stave, S.; Tatishvili, G.; Thornton, R. T.; Tovesson, F.; Towell, D.; Towell, R. S.; Watson, S.; Wendt, B.; Wood, L.; Yao, L.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.057

Title: A time projection chamber for high accuracy and precision fission cross-section measurements

Abstract

The fission Time Projection Chamber (fissionTPC) is a compact (15 cm diameter) two-chamber MICROMEGAS TPC designed to make precision cross-section measurements of neutron-induced fission. The actinide targets are placed on the central cathode and irradiated with a neutron beam that passes axially through the TPC inducing fission in the target. The 4π acceptance for fission fragments and complete charged particle track reconstruction are powerful features of the fissionTPC which will be used to measure fission cross-sections and examine the associated systematic errors. This study provides a detailed description of the design requirements, the design solutions, and the initial performance of the fissionTPC.

Authors:

Heffner, M. ^[1]; Asner, D. M. ^[2]; Baker, R. G. ^[3]; Baker, J. ^[4]; Barrett, S. ^[5]; Brune, C. ^[6]; Bundgaard, J. ^[7]; Burgett, E. ^[8]; Carter, D. ^[1]; Cunningham, M. ^[1]; Deaven, J. ^[9]; Duke, D. L. ^[10]; Greife, U. ^[7]; Grimes, S. ^[6]; Hager, U. ^[7]; Hertel, N. ^[11]; Hill, T. ^[12]; Isenhower, D. ^[13]; Jewell, K. ^[4]; King, J. ^[5] more »

Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
California Polytechnic State Univ. (CalPoly), San Luis Obispo, CA (United States)
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
Idaho State Univ., Pocatello, ID (United States); Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
Idaho State Univ., Pocatello, ID (United States)
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); California Polytechnic State Univ. (CalPoly), San Luis Obispo, CA (United States)
Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Abilene Christian Univ., Abilene, TX (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)

Publication Date:: Thu May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2014

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1343003

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-651187
Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 759; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; TPC; detectors; fission; time projection chamber

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                    Heffner, M., Asner, D. M., Baker, R. G., Baker, J., Barrett, S., Brune, C., Bundgaard, J., Burgett, E., Carter, D., Cunningham, M., Deaven, J., Duke, D. L., Greife, U., Grimes, S., Hager, U., Hertel, N., Hill, T., Isenhower, D., Jewell, K., King, J., Klay, J. L., Kleinrath, V., Kornilov, N., Kudo, R., Laptev, A. B., Leonard, M., Loveland, W., Massey, T. N., McGrath, C., Meharchand, R., Montoya, L., Pickle, N., Qu, H., Riot, V., Ruz, J., Sangiorgio, S., Seilhan, B., Sharma, S., Snyder, L., Stave, S., Tatishvili, G., Thornton, R. T., Tovesson, F., Towell, D., Towell, R. S., Watson, S., Wendt, B., Wood, L., and Yao, L. A time projection chamber for high accuracy and precision fission cross-section measurements.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Heffner, M., Asner, D. M., Baker, R. G., Baker, J., Barrett, S., Brune, C., Bundgaard, J., Burgett, E., Carter, D., Cunningham, M., Deaven, J., Duke, D. L., Greife, U., Grimes, S., Hager, U., Hertel, N., Hill, T., Isenhower, D., Jewell, K., King, J., Klay, J. L., Kleinrath, V., Kornilov, N., Kudo, R., Laptev, A. B., Leonard, M., Loveland, W., Massey, T. N., McGrath, C., Meharchand, R., Montoya, L., Pickle, N., Qu, H., Riot, V., Ruz, J., Sangiorgio, S., Seilhan, B., Sharma, S., Snyder, L., Stave, S., Tatishvili, G., Thornton, R. T., Tovesson, F., Towell, D., Towell, R. S., Watson, S., Wendt, B., Wood, L., & Yao, L. A time projection chamber for high accuracy and precision fission cross-section measurements.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.057

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                    Heffner, M., Asner, D. M., Baker, R. G., Baker, J., Barrett, S., Brune, C., Bundgaard, J., Burgett, E., Carter, D., Cunningham, M., Deaven, J., Duke, D. L., Greife, U., Grimes, S., Hager, U., Hertel, N., Hill, T., Isenhower, D., Jewell, K., King, J., Klay, J. L., Kleinrath, V., Kornilov, N., Kudo, R., Laptev, A. B., Leonard, M., Loveland, W., Massey, T. N., McGrath, C., Meharchand, R., Montoya, L., Pickle, N., Qu, H., Riot, V., Ruz, J., Sangiorgio, S., Seilhan, B., Sharma, S., Snyder, L., Stave, S., Tatishvili, G., Thornton, R. T., Tovesson, F., Towell, D., Towell, R. S., Watson, S., Wendt, B., Wood, L., and Yao, L. Thu .  
"A time projection chamber for high accuracy and precision fission cross-section measurements".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.057.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1343003.

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@article{osti_1343003,

  title        = {A time projection chamber for high accuracy and precision fission cross-section measurements},

  author       = {Heffner, M. and Asner, D. M. and Baker, R. G. and Baker, J. and Barrett, S. and Brune, C. and Bundgaard, J. and Burgett, E. and Carter, D. and Cunningham, M. and Deaven, J. and Duke, D. L. and Greife, U. and Grimes, S. and Hager, U. and Hertel, N. and Hill, T. and Isenhower, D. and Jewell, K. and King, J. and Klay, J. L. and Kleinrath, V. and Kornilov, N. and Kudo, R. and Laptev, A. B. and Leonard, M. and Loveland, W. and Massey, T. N. and McGrath, C. and Meharchand, R. and Montoya, L. and Pickle, N. and Qu, H. and Riot, V. and Ruz, J. and Sangiorgio, S. and Seilhan, B. and Sharma, S. and Snyder, L. and Stave, S. and Tatishvili, G. and Thornton, R. T. and Tovesson, F. and Towell, D. and Towell, R. S. and Watson, S. and Wendt, B. and Wood, L. and Yao, L.},

  abstractNote = {The fission Time Projection Chamber (fissionTPC) is a compact (15 cm diameter) two-chamber MICROMEGAS TPC designed to make precision cross-section measurements of neutron-induced fission. The actinide targets are placed on the central cathode and irradiated with a neutron beam that passes axially through the TPC inducing fission in the target. The 4π acceptance for fission fragments and complete charged particle track reconstruction are powerful features of the fissionTPC which will be used to measure fission cross-sections and examine the associated systematic errors. This study provides a detailed description of the design requirements, the design solutions, and the initial performance of the fissionTPC.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.057},

  journal      = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 759,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2014},

  month        = {Thu May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2014}

}

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PHENIX on-line and off-line computing journal, March 2003

The ATLAS central level-1 trigger logic and TTC system journal, August 2008

ROOT — An object oriented data analysis framework journal, April 1997

Use of the Hough transformation to detect lines and curves in pictures journal, January 1972

A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems journal, March 1960

The NA49 large acceptance hadron detector journal, July 1999

Statistics of electron avalanches and ultimate resolution of proportional counters journal, December 1970

Ion backflow in the Micromegas TPC for the future linear collider journal, December 2004

Thick GEM-like hole multipliers: properties and possible applications journal, December 2004

GEM: A new concept for electron amplification in gas detectors journal, February 1997

Partial-wave analysis of all nucleon-nucleon scattering data below 350 MeV journal, August 1993

Relative and Absolute Measurements of the Fast-Neutron Fission Cross Section of Uranium-235 journal, April 1974

High quality actinide targets journal, July 2015

Fission fragment yields and total kinetic energy release in neutron-induced fission of 235,238 U,and 239 Pu journal, January 2018

Nuclear fission: a review of experimental advances and phenomenology journal, November 2017

Prompt neutron multiplicity distributions inferred from γ -ray and fission fragment energy measurements journal, November 2019

Fission fragment angular anisotropy in neutron-induced fission of U 235 measured with a time projection chamber journal, June 2019

High Quality Actinide Targets text, January 2017

1H(n,el) as a Cross Section Reference in a White Source Neutron Beam With the fissionTPC preprint, January 2019

The fission cross sections of 233U, 234U, 236U, 238U, 237Np, 239Pu, 240Pu and 241Pu relative to that of 235U for neutrons in the energy range 1–14 MeV
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The Fission Cross Sections of Plutonium-239 and Plutonium-242 Relative to Uranium-235 from 0.1 to 10 MeV
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Cross Sections for ²³⁹ Pu( n , f ) and ²⁴¹ Pu( n , f ) in the Range E _n = 0.01 eV to 200 MeV
journal, June 2010

Fission Cross Section of Uranium-235 from 3 to 20 MeV
journal, May 1975

Cross Sections for Neutron-Induced Fission of ²³⁵ U, ²³⁸ U, ²⁰⁹ Bi, and ^nat Pb in the Energy Range from 33 to 200 MeV Measured Relative to n - p Scattering
journal, June 2007

Neutron-Induced Fission Cross-Section Ratios for ²³⁹ Pu, ²⁴⁰ Pu, ²⁴² Pu, and ²⁴⁴ Pu Relative to ²³⁵ U from 0.5 to 400 MeV
journal, June 1998

Nuclear data sensitivity, uncertainty and target accuracy assessment for future nuclear systems
journal, May 2006

A fission ionization detector for neutron flux measurements at a spallation source
journal, November 1993

The Time Projection Chamber
journal, October 1978

Time projection chambers
journal, October 2010

MICROMEGAS: a high-granularity position-sensitive gaseous detector for high particle-flux environments
journal, June 1996

Growth and surface morphology of uranium films during molecular plating
journal, November 2011

Preparation of thin Films, Sources, and Targets
journal, December 1962

ENDF/B-VII.1 Nuclear Data for Science and Technology: Cross Sections, Covariances, Fission Product Yields and Decay Data
journal, December 2011

International Evaluation of Neutron Cross Section Standards
journal, December 2009

The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
journal, June 2006

Study of sparking in Micromegas chambers
journal, August 2002

The forward time projection chamber in STAR
journal, March 2003

Timepix, a 65k programmable pixel readout chip for arrival time, energy and/or photon counting measurements
journal, October 2007

Thick GEM-like hole multipliers: properties and possible applications
journal, December 2004

Ion backflow in the Micromegas TPC for the future linear collider
journal, December 2004

Target preparation for the fission TPC
journal, July 2009

A Compact, Flexible, High Channel Count DAQ Built From Off-the-Shelf Components
journal, June 2013

PHENIX on-line and off-line computing
journal, March 2003

The ATLAS central level-1 trigger logic and TTC system
journal, August 2008

ROOT — An object oriented data analysis framework
journal, April 1997

Use of the Hough transformation to detect lines and curves in pictures
journal, January 1972

A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems
journal, March 1960

The NA49 large acceptance hadron detector
journal, July 1999

Statistics of electron avalanches and ultimate resolution of proportional counters
journal, December 1970

Ion backflow in the Micromegas TPC for the future linear collider
journal, December 2004

Thick GEM-like hole multipliers: properties and possible applications
journal, December 2004

GEM: A new concept for electron amplification in gas detectors
journal, February 1997

Partial-wave analysis of all nucleon-nucleon scattering data below 350 MeV
journal, August 1993

Relative and Absolute Measurements of the Fast-Neutron Fission Cross Section of Uranium-235
journal, April 1974

High quality actinide targets
journal, July 2015

Fission fragment yields and total kinetic energy release in neutron-induced fission of ^235,238 U,and ²³⁹ Pu
journal, January 2018

Nuclear fission: a review of experimental advances and phenomenology
journal, November 2017

Prompt neutron multiplicity distributions inferred from $γ$ -ray and fission fragment energy measurements
journal, November 2019

Fission fragment angular anisotropy in neutron-induced fission of ${}^{235}U$ measured with a time projection chamber
journal, June 2019

High Quality Actinide Targets
text, January 2017

1H(n,el) as a Cross Section Reference in a White Source Neutron Beam With the fissionTPC
preprint, January 2019