A ray-trace-type counter telescope for neutron spectrometry

Author

Wakabayashi, G. ; Kitano, T. ; Yanagawa, H. ; Aoki, S. ; Matoba, M. ; Sakae, T. ; Watanabe, Y. ; Sagara, K. ; Ikeda, N.

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Eng. Sci., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

Volume

48

Issue

3

fYear

2001

fDate

6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

320

Lastpage

324

Abstract

A compact recoil-proton counter telescope with two position sensitive proportional counters (PSPCs) for neutron spectrometry has been developed. This counter telescope consists of a radiator (a thin polyethylene film), two PSPCs used as ΔE detector, and an Si-SSD used as E detector. Using the position information extracted from two PSPCs, the three-dimensional trajectory of the recoil proton and the recoil angle can be determined event by event. The performance of this counter telescope was tested by measurement of 7.2-MeV neutrons produced from D-D reactions. It was shown that the energy spectra of neutrons could be obtained by determining the energy of each incident neutron using a recoil angle

Keywords

neutron spectroscopy; position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; silicon radiation detectors; 7.2 MeV; Si; Si detector; neutron spectra; neutron spectrometry; polyethylene film; position sensitive proportional counters; ray-trace-type counter telescope; recoil angle; recoil proton; recoil-proton counter telescope; Counting circuits; Data mining; Detectors; Neutrons; Plastic films; Polyethylene; Protons; Spectroscopy; Telescopes; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.940073

Filename

940073