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DECal, a Python tool for the efficiency calculation of thermal neutron detectors based on thin-film converters

Computational Physics 2018-01-23 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The Detector Efficiency Calculator (DECal) is a series of Python functions and tools designed to analytically calculate, visualise and optimise the detection efficiency of thermal neutron detectors, which are based on thin-film converters. The implementation presented in this article concerns 10B-based detectors in particular. The code can be run via a graphical user interface, as well as via the command line. The source code is openly available to interested users via a GitHub repository.

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@article{arxiv.1801.07124,
  title  = {DECal, a Python tool for the efficiency calculation of thermal neutron detectors based on thin-film converters},
  author = {Álvaro Carmona Basañez and Kalliopi Kanaki and Francesco Piscitelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07124},
  year   = {2018}
}