DocumentCode
2630424
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
fYear
2008
fDate
19-25 Oct. 2008
Firstpage
660
Lastpage
666
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location
Dresden, Germany
ISSN
1095-7863
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN
1095-7863
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4775220
Filename
4775220
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