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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

Diamonds are very promising candidates for the neutron diagnostics in harsh environments such as fusion reactor. In the first place this is because of their radiation hardness, exceeding that of Silicon by an order of magnitude. Also, in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 B. Caiffi , M. Osipenko , M. Ripani , M. Pillon , M. Taiuti

In the search for a monochromatic peak as the signature of neutrinoless double beta decay an excellent energy resolution and an ultra-low background around the $Q$-value of the decay are essential. The LEGEND-200 experiment performs such a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-02 L. Baudis , G. Benato , E. M. Bond , P. -J. Chiu , S. R. Elliott , R. Massarczyk , S. Meijer , Y. Müller

The differential cross section and deuteron analysing powers of the dp -> {pp}n charge-exchange reaction have been measured with the ANKE spectrometer at the COSY storage ring. Using a deuteron beam of energy 1170 MeV, data were obtained…

Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) such as Micromegas or GEM are used in particle physics experiments for their capabilities in particle tracking at high rates. Their excellent position resolutions are well known but their energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Zerguerras , B. Genolini , V. Lepeltier , J. Peyre , J. Pouthas , P. Rosier

The AMANDE facility at IRSN-Cadarache produces mono-energetic neutron fields from 2 keV to 20 MeV with metrological quality. To be considered as a standard facility, characteristics of neutron field i.e fluence distribution must be well…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-12-08 A. Allaoua , O. Guillaudin , S. Higueret , D. Husson , L. Lebreton , F. Mayet , M. Nourreddine , D. Santos , A. Trichet

We identify a number of crystalline structures with promising characteristics to serve as a detection medium for a novel Dark Matter (DM) detector with a low threshold energy. A detector of this kind can be specifically useful in…

In this paper a new version of Li6-based neutron spectrometer for high flux environments is described. The new spectrometer was built with commercial single crystal Chemical Vapour Deposition diamonds of electronic grade. These crystals…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Osipenko , A. Bellucci , V. Ceriale , D. Corsini , G. Gariano , F. Gatti , M. Girolami , S. Minutoli , F. Panza , M. Pillon , M. Ripani , D. M. Trucchi

Properties of nuclear matter are investigated in the framework of relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock model with the latest high-precision charge-dependent Bonn (pvCD-Bonn) potentials, where the coupling between pion and nucleon is adopted…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Chencan Wang , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang , Hong Shen

A large area plastic scintillator detector array(~ 1 m x1m) has been set up for fast neutron spectroscopy at the BARC-TIFR Pelletron laboratory, Mumbai. The energy, time and position response has been measured for electrons using…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-01-16 P. C. Rout , D. R. Chakrabarty , V. M. Datar , Suresh Kumar , E. T. Mirgule , A. Mitra , V. Nanal , R. Kujur

In the present paper we study some neutrino properties as they may appear in the low energy neutrinos emitted in triton decay with maximum neutrino energy of 18.6 keV. The technical challenges to this end can be achieved by building a very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Giomataris , J. D. Vergados

We describe design studies for a pulsed quasi-monoenergetic 2-keV neutron source for calibration of sub-keV nuclear recoils. Such a calibration is required for detectors sensitive to sub-GeV dark matter and also the coherent elastic…

We report on the detection of single photons with {\lambda} = 8 {\mu}m using a superconducting hot-electron microbolometer. The sensing element is a titanium transition-edge sensor with a volume ~ 0.1 {\mu}m^3 fabricated on a silicon…

Nuclear fusion in ultra-dense deuterium D(-1) induced by 0.2 J pulses with 5 ns pulse length ejects ions with energies in the MeV range. The ns-resolved signal to a collector can be observed directly on an oscilloscope, showing ions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-30 Leif Holmlid

Experimental investigation of (n, x) and (g, x) reactions on Tb-159 with activation technique was carried out. Tb specimens of natural composition were irradiated with (d-d) and (d-t) neutrons using NG-300 neutron generator. Additionally…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-01-27 I. Kadenko , N. Dzysiuk

The feasibility of performing fast neutron resonance radiography at the PTB accelerator facility is studied. A neutron beam of a broad spectral distribution is produced by a pulsed 13 MeV deuterium beam hitting a thick Be target. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Dangendorf , G. Laczko , C. Kersten , O. Jagutzki , U. Spillmann

The energy spectra of the neutrons emitted following nuclear muon capture on palladium isotopes ($A=104$, 105, 106, 108, and 110) were measured using isotopically enriched target. \item[Method] The experiment was performed at the MuSIC-M1…

In this paper we present the results from the measurements made with the MUNU TPC at 1bar pressure of CF4 in the energy region below 1 MeV. Electron events down to 80 keV are successfully measured. The electron energy and direction are…

A neutron detector based on EJ301 liquid scintillator has been employed at EAST to measure the neutron energy spectrum for D-D fusion plasma. The detector was carefully characterized in different quasi-monoenergetic neutron fields generated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-30 Xi Yuan , Xing Zhang , Xufei Xie , G. Gorini , Zhongjing Chen , Xingyu Peng , Jinxiang Chen , Guohui Zhang , Tieshuan Fan , Guoqiang Zhong , Liqun Hu , Baonian Wan