Title :
Detection of chemical agents with a portable neutron inspection system
Author :
Carasco, Cédric ; Pérot, Bertrand ; Ma, Jean-Luc ; Mariani, Alain ; Raoux, Anne-Cecile ; Pras, Philippe ; Cusset, Eric ; Vogler, René ; Gmar, Mehdi ; Sannié, Guillaume ; Normand, Stéphane
Author_Institution :
CEA, DEN, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
Abstract :
The detection of special elements that can be used by terrorists in improvised chemical weapons can be performed by the spectroscopic analysis of neutron-induced gamma rays. Numerical simulations and experiments have been performed with the aim of designing a portable inspection system. Both thermal neutron analysis (TNA) and the associated particle technique (APT) have been studied within French CBNRE (chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological and explosive) R&D program. The results obtained so far show that TNA and APT can be used in complement to reach the largest possible panel of detectable elements.
Keywords :
Chemical analysis; Chemical elements; Gamma ray detection; Gamma ray detectors; Inspection; Neutrons; Performance analysis; Spectroscopy; Terrorism; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Dresden, Germany
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4775220
