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- Title
Advances on the development of the detection system of C-BORD’s rapidly relocatable tagged neutron inspection.
- Authors
Pino, Felix; Fontana, Cristiano Lino; Lunardon, Marcello; Stevanato, Luca; Sada, Cinzia; Carnera, Alberto; Soramel, Francesca; Moretto, Sandra; Nebbia, Giancarlo; Sardet, Alix; Carasco, Cedric; Perot, Bertrand; Sannie, Guillaume; Iovene, Alessandro; Tintori, Carlo; Sibczynski, Pawel; Swiderski, Lukasz; Grodzicki, Krystian; Moszynski, Marek
- Abstract
The European H2020 project entitled “effective container inspection at border control point” (C-BORD) focuses on the development and in-situ tests of a comprehensive, cost-effective solution for the generalized non-intrusive inspection (NII) of containers and large-volume freight at the European Union border. The opening procedures of suspect containers are time consuming and expensive for economical and safety reasons; therefore, to reduce such operations, the C-BORD project aims to develop a set of technologies that can improve the quality of NII. Among these techniques, a tagged neutron inspection system is being developed in the C-BORD project. It will be a second-line defense system, to be used on sealed containers to detect explosives, illicit drugs, and chemical agents in suspect voxels (elementary volume units). This method employs a beam of tagged neutrons and a set of NaI(Tl) and LaBr3(Ce) scintillators, which will be used to detect prompt gamma rays produced by the neutron interactions. Here we report the advances on the development of the C-BORD’s rapidly relocatable tagged neutron inspection system, in particular the comprehensive characterization of the NaI(Tl) and LaBr3(Ce) gamma detectors (time and energy resolutions, high-count-rate behavior), the digital analysis for time-coincidence measurements and the data acquisition system (DAQ).
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, 2018, Vol 48, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2010-1945
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S2010194518601254