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A new high-granular compact time-of-flight neutron detector for the identification and energy measurement of neutrons produced in nucleus-nucleus interactions at the BM@N experiment, Dubna, Russia, at energies up to 4 AGeV is under…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-19 N. Karpushkin , D. Finogeev , F. Guber , D. Lyapin , A. Makhnev , S. Morozov , D. Serebryakov

A multi-detector array has been constructed for the simultaneous measurement of energy- and angular correlation of electron-positron pairs produced in internal pair conversion (IPC) of nuclear transitions up to 18 MeV. The response…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K. E. Stiebing , F. W. N. de Boer , O. Froehlich , H. Bokemeyer , K. A. Mueller , K. Bethge , J. van Klinken

In the context of particle therapy monitoring, we are developing a gamma-ray detector to determine the ion range in vivo from the measurement of particle time-of-flight. For this application, a beam monitor capable to tag in time the…

We report the measurements of the fast neutron energy response in Indian Scintillator Matrix for Reactor Anti-Neutrinos (ISMRAN) detector consisting of an array of 9$\times$10 Plastic Scintillator Bars (PSBs) at BARC, Mumbai. ISMRAN is an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-18 R. Dey , P. K. Netrakanti , D. K. Mishra , S. P. Behera , R. Sehgal , V. Jha , L. M. Pant

We report measurement of reactor based electron anti-neutrinos from a prototype array of plastic scintillator bars ( mini-ISMRAN ) located inside Dhruva research reactor hall, BARC. The detector setup took data for 128 days for reactor on…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-12-30 P. K. Netrakanti , D. Mulmule , D. K. Mishra , S. P. Behera , R. Dey , R. Sehgal , S. K. Sinha , V. Jha , L. M. Pant

We report a novel neutron-detection approach employing an EJ-309 liquid scintillator surrounded by six 3He proportional counters. Tests were performed at the FRANZ facility of the Goethe-University Frankfurt using the 7Li(p,n0)7Be reaction,…

The neutron energy spectrum for energies between 5 and 15 MeV has been measured in the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, by using a $1.5~m^3$ stainless-steel tank filled with 1.2 ton Gd-doped liquid scintillator. A…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-10 Gianmarco Bruno , Walter Fulgione

An aboveground 60-kg reactor-antineutrino detector prototype, comprised of a 2-dimensional array of 36 $^{6}$Li-doped pulse shape sensitive plastic scintillator bars, is described. Each bar is 50~cm long with a square cross section of…

We report on the development of a fast neutron detector using a liquid scintillator doped with enriched Li-6. The lithium was introduced in the form of an aqueous LiCl micro-emulsion with a di-isopropylnaphthalene-based liquid scintillator.…

Organic scintillators doped with capture agents provide a detectable signal for neutrons over a broad energy range. This work characterizes the fast and slow neutron response of EJ-254, an organic plastic scintillator with 5% natural boron…

Conceiving the possibility of using plastic scintillator bars as robust detectors for antineutrino detection for the remote reactor monitoring and nuclear safeguard application we study expected basic performance by Monte Carlo simulation.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-20 A. Sh. Georgadze , V. M. Pavlovych , O. A. Ponkratenko , D. A. Litvinov

The response of a NE-213 liquid-scintillator detector has been measured using tagged neutrons from 2--6 MeV originating from an Am/Be neutron source. The neutron energies were determined using the time-of-flight technique. Pulse-shape…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-02 J. Scherzinger , R. Al Jebali , J. R. M. Annand , K. G. Fissum , R. Hall-Wilton , K. Kanaki , M. Lundin , B. Nilsson , H. Perrey , A. Rosborg , H. Svensson

We characterize the performance of two pixelated neutron detectors: a PMT-based array that utilizes Anger logic for pixel identification and a SiPM-based array that employs individual pixel readout. The SiPM-based array offers improved…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-31 J. Balajthy , P. Marleau , M. Sweany

In order to develop a high spatial resolution (micron level) thermal neutron detector, a detector assembly composed of cerium doped lithium glass microfibers, each with a diameter of 1\,$\mu$m, is proposed, where the neutron absorption…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-14 Song Yushou , Joseph Conner , Xiaodong Zhang , Jason P. Hayward

We investigate scintillation linearity of a commercial high pressure $^4$He gas detector using monoenergetic 2.8 MeV neutrons from a deuterium-deuterium fusion neutron generator. The scintillation response of the detector was measured for a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-23 A. Biekert , S. A. Hertel , E. Huebler , J. Lin , H. D. Pinckney , R. K. Romani , A. Serafin , V. Velan , D. N. McKinsey

We exposed a prototype of the lead-scintillating fiber KLOE calorimeter to neutron beam of 21, 46 and 174 MeV at The Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala, to study its neutron detection efficiency. This has been found larger than what expected…

Differential and angle-integrated cross sections for the $^{10}$B($n, {\alpha}$)$^{7}$Li, $^{10}$B($n, {\alpha}$$_{0}$)$^{7}$Li and $^{10}$B($n, {\alpha}$$_{1}$)$^{7}$Li$^{*}$ reactions have been measured at CSNS Back-n white neutron…

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…

The design of a low-power prototype of neutron amplifier recently proposed within the INFN-E project indicated the need for more accurate called for detailed data on the neutron yield produced by a proton beam with energy of about 70 MeV…

The next generation of very-short-baseline reactor experiments will require compact detectors operating at surface level and close to a nuclear reactor. This paper presents a new detector concept based on a composite solid scintillator…