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The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) is a ton-level liquid scintillator detector to be placed at 30\,m from a core of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant for precise reactor antineutrino spectrum measurements. One important background for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-07 Ruhui Li , Yichen Li , Zhimin Wang , Qiang Li , Liang Zhan , Jun Cao

Although for large area detectors it is crucial to find an alternative to detect thermal neutrons because of the 3He shortage, this is not the case for small area detectors. Neutron scattering science is still growing its instruments' power…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-14 F. Piscitelli , J. C. Buffet , J. F. Clergeau , S. Cuccaro , B. Guerard , A. Khaplanov , Q. La Manna , J. M. Rigal , P. Van Esch

Multiple types of high quality neutron detectors are proposed for the first phase of the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), which will be commissioned in 2018. Considering the shortage of 3He supply, a detector module composed of 49…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-21 Zhaoyang Xie , Jianrong Zhou , Yushou Song , Liang Sun , Zhijia Sun , Bitao Hu , Yuanbo Chen

The design and characteristics of the new very small angle neutron scattering spectrometer under construction at the Laboratoire Leon Brillouin is described. Its goal is to extend the range of scattering vectors magnitudes towards 2x10{-4}…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-13 Sylvain Desert , Vincent Thevenot , Julian Oberdisse , Annie Brulet

Resistive plate chambers (RPC) lined with $^{10}B_{4}$C neutron converters is a promising cost effective technology for position-sensitive thermal neutron detection capable to outperform $^{3}$He-based detectors in terms of spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 L. M. S. Margato , A. Morozov , A. Blanco , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , K. Zeitelhack , R. Hall-Wilton , C. Höglund , L. Robinson , S. Schmidt , P. Svensson

Neutron scattering techniques offer a unique combination of structural and the dynamic information of atomic and molecular systems over a wide range of distances and times. The increasing complexity in science investigations driven by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-30 Giacomo Mauri

To further study neutrino oscillation properties a Beta Beam facility has been proposed. Beta decaying ions with high kinetic energy are stored in a storage ring ("Decay Ring") with straight sections to create pure focused (anti) electron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel Christopher Heinrich , Christian Hansen , Antoine Chance

Polarized neutrons are a powerful probe to investigate magnetism in condensed matter on length scales from single atomic distances to micrometers. With the ongoing advancement of neutron optics, that allow to transport beams with increased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 Jochen Stahn , Artur Glavic

Neutron imaging is a non-destructive technique for analyzing a wide class of samples, such as archaeological or industrial material structures. In recent decades, technological advances have had a great impact on the neutron imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-28 Luiz P. de Oliveira , Alexandre P. S. Souza , Frederico A. Genezini , Adimir dos Santos

We present Monte-Carlo simulations for the focusing design of a novel cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer to be installed at the end position of the cold guide NL-1 of the research reactor FRM-II in Munich, Germany. Our simulations are of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-16 A. C. Komarek , P. Böni , M. Braden

The first neutron texture diffractometer in China has been built at China Advanced Research Reactor due to the strong demands of texture measurement with neutrons from domestic user community. This neutron texture diffractometer has high…

A development in modern neutron spectroscopy is to avoid the need of large samples. We demonstrate how small samples together with the right choice of analyser and detector components makes distance collimation an important concept in…

The NO{\nu}A Experiment will construct a detector optimized for electron neutrino detection in the existing Neutrino at Main Injector (NuMI) beamline. This beamline is capable of operating at 400 kW of primary beam power and the upgrade…

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The next generation of radioactive ion beam facilities, which will give experimental access to many exotic nuclei, are presently being developed. These facilities will make it possible to study very short lived exotic nuclei with extreme…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-05-14 Pär-Anders Söderström

The neutron background spectrum from thermal neutron to 20 MeV fast neutron was measured at the first experimental hall of China Jinping underground laboratory with a Bonner multi-sphere spectrometer. The measurement system was validated by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-26 Qingdong Hu , Hao Ma , Zhi Zeng , Jianping Cheng , Yunhua Chen , Shenming He , Junli Li , Manbin Shen , Shiyong Wu , Qian Yue , Jianfeng Yue , Hui Zhang

Neutron decay spectroscopy has become a successful tool to explore nuclear properties of nuclei with the largest neutron-to-proton ratios. Resonances in nuclei located beyond the neutron dripline are accessible by kinematic reconstruction…

Precise in-situ measurements of the neutron flux in underground laboratories is crucial for direct dark matter searches, as neutron induced backgrounds can mimic the typical dark matter signal. The development of a novel neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 I. Giomataris , S. Green , I. Katsioulas , P. Knights , I. Manthos , J. Matthews , T. Neep , K. Nikolopoulos , T. Papaevangelou , B. Phoenix , J. Sanders , R. Ward

The micropattern gaseous detector Micromegas has been developed for several years in Saclay and presents good performance for neutron detection. A prototype for neutron imaging has been designed and new results obtained in thermal neutron…

The setup, capabilities and operation parameters of the neutron reflectometer GINA, the recently installed "Grazing Incidence Neutron Apparatus" at the Budapest Neutron Centre, are introduced. GINA, a dance-floor-type, constant-energy,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-04 L. Bottyán , D. G. Merkel , B. Nagy , J. Füzi , Sz. Sajti , L. Deák , A. V. Petrenko , G. Endrőczi , J. Major

We report on the measurement of neutron energy spectra at the newly established Yemi Underground Laboratory (Yemilab) in the Republic of Korea, designed to host dark matter and rare-event search experiments. A high-sensitivity neutron…