A variety of experiments investigating properties of neutrons can be performed at pulsed reactor neutron sources like the research reactor TRIGA Mainz. A typical problem faced by these experiments is the non-availability of a reliable facility-provided trigger signal in coincidence with the neutron production. Here we present the design and implementation of a neutron pulse detector that provides a coincident trigger signal for experimental timing with a relative precision of 4.5 ms.
@article{arxiv.2308.08357,
title = {A neutron trigger detector for pulsed reactor neutron sources},
author = {Julian Auler and Dieter Ries and Bernd Ulmann and Evan Adamek and Martin Engler and Martin Fertl and Konrad Franz and Werner Heil and Simon Kaufmann and Niklas Pfeifer and Kim Roß and Alexandra Tsvetkov and Noah Yazdandoost},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08357},
year = {2024}
}