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- Title
A BONNER SPHERE SPECTROMETER FOR PULSED FIELDS.
- Authors
Dinar, N.; Silari, M.; Aza, E.; Manessi, G. P.
- Abstract
The use of conventional Bonner Sphere Spectrometers (BSS) in pulsed neutron fields (PNF) is limited by the fact that proportional counters, usually employed as the thermal neutron detectors, suffer from dead time losses and show severe underestimation of the neutron interaction rate, which leads to strong distortion of the calculated spectrum. In order to avoid these limitations, an innovative BSS, called BSS-LUPIN, has been developed for measuring in PNF. This paper describes the physical characteristics of the device and its working principle, together with the results of Monte Carlo simulations of its response matrix. The BSSLUPIN has been tested in the stray neutron field at the CERN Proton Synchrotron, by comparing the spectra obtained with the new device, the conventional CERN BSS and via Monte Carlo simulations.
- Subjects
BONNER sphere spectrometers; NEUTRON measurement; RADIATION measurements; NEUTRON spectrometers; PROTON synchrotrons; MONTE Carlo method; EUROPEAN Organization for Nuclear Research
- Publication
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2016, Vol 168, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0144-8420
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rpd/ncv180