Development of 14 MeV neutron spectrometer for fusion experimental reactor

A 14 MeV neutron spectrometer suitable for an ITER-like fusion reactor is conceptually designed on the basis of a recoil proton counter telescope method in oblique scattering geometry. To verify the principle and basic performance of the detector concept, preliminary experiments are made for a prototype detector system, where the detector responses are measured to 14 MeV neutrons produced from an accelerator deuterium-tritium (DT) neutron source and compared with the calculated ones. The comparison results show reasonably good agreement and demonstrate the possibility of energy resolution of 2.5% in full width at half maximum for 14 MeV neutron spectrometry.