Detection of concealed Special Nuclear Material using Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence technique

Author

Yang, H. ; Wehe, D.K.

Author_Institution

Canberra Ind., Meriden, CT, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

Oct. 24 2009-Nov. 1 2009

Firstpage

898

Lastpage

903

Abstract

Detection method based on nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) technique targeting concealed special nuclear material (SNM) has been discussed. Customized DAQ system has been developed to handle high rate events in NRF measurements by implementing real-time DSP on fast ADC and FPGA chip. Experiments have been setup for feasibility study utilizing a 3 MeV Van de Graaff accelerator. NRF peaks from various samples have been observed using both HPGe detector and lanthanum halide scintillation detector.

Keywords

data acquisition; digital signal processing chips; field programmable gate arrays; fluorescence; germanium radiation detectors; national security; nuclear electronics; nuclear materials safeguards; scintillation counters; DAQ system; FPGA chip; HPGe detector; NRF technique; analogue-digital conversion; concealed SNM; concealed nuclear material detection; concealed special nuclear material; data acquisition system; electron volt energy 3 MeV; fast ADC; field programmable gate arrays; lanthanum halide scintillation detector; nuclear resonance fluorescence; real time digital signal processing; van de Graaff accelerator; Data acquisition; Digital signal processing chips; Field programmable gate arrays; Fluorescence; Lanthanum; Real time systems; Resonance; Scintillation counters; Semiconductor device measurement; Solid scintillation detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3961-4

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401558

Filename

5401558