• DocumentCode
    1176440
  • Title

    Neutron response functions improved by taking into consideration the measured edge effect of the 3He proportional counter

  • Author

    Takeda, N. ; Kudo, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Electrotech. Lab., Ibaraki, Japan
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    8/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    880
  • Lastpage
    883
  • Abstract
    Relative gas multiplication along the cylindrical axis of a 3 He proportional counter was measured by using a collimated beam of thermal neutrons produced in a graphite pile. The gas multiplication changed gradually in the vicinity of both edges of the sensitive region. The total transition region of the gas multiplication was found to correspond to 23% of the nominal sensitive region. Response functions for thermal neutrons and 2.413 MeV neutrons were calculated with consideration of the measured edge effect by a modified NRESP Monte Carlo code. In both cases, the results showed good agreement with the measured pulse height distributions
  • Keywords
    Monte Carlo methods; neutron detection and measurement; proportional counters; 2.413 MeV; 3He proportional counter; He; NRESP code; edge effect; neutron response functions; pulse height distributions; relative gas multiplication; thermal neutrons; Anodes; Area measurement; Counting circuits; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Monte Carlo methods; Neutrons; Protons; Pulse measurements; Wire;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/23.322825
  • Filename
    322825
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1176440