Research and development on alternative thermal neutron detection technologies and methods are nowadays needed as a possible replacement of 3He-based ones. Commercial solid state silicon detectors, coupled with neutron converter layers containing 6Li, have been proved to represent a viable solution for several applications as present in literature. In order to better understand the detailed operation and the response and efficiency of such detectors, a series of dedicated GEANT4 simulations were performed and compared with real data collected in a few different configurations. The results show a remarkable agreement between data and simulations, indicating that the behavior of the detector is fully understood.
@article{arxiv.1703.01992,
title = {Study of Silicon+6LiF thermal neutron detectors: GEANT4 simulations versus real data},
author = {Sergio Lo Meo and Luigi Cosentino and Paolo Bartolomei and Paolo Finocchiaro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01992},
year = {2017}
}
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20 pages, 28 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research section A