Composite detectors made of stainless steel converters and multigap resistive plate chambers have been irradiated with quasi-monoenergetic neutrons with a peak energy of 175MeV. The neutron detection efficiency has been determined using two different methods. The data are in agreement with the output of Monte Carlo simulations. The simulations are then extended to study the response of a hypothetical array made of these detectors to energetic neutrons from a radioactive ion beam experiment.
@article{arxiv.1406.5830,
title = {Efficiency determination of resistive plate chambers for fast quasi-monoenergetic neutrons},
author = {M. Röder and Z. Elekes and T. Aumann and D. Bemmerer and K. Boretzky and C. Caesar and T. E. Cowan and J. Hehner and M. Heil and M. Kempe and V. Maroussov and O. Nusair and A. V. Prokofiev and R. Reifarth and M. Sobiella and D. Stach and A. Wagner and D. Yakorev and A. Zilges and K. Zuber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5830},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Submitted to Eur.Phys.J. A; upgraded version correcting some typos and updating ref. 6