Detection of chemical agents with a portable neutron inspection system

Autor: Guillaume Sannie, Cedric Carasco, Jean-Luc Ma, Stephane Normand, Philippe Pras, Anne-Cecile Raoux, Rene Vogler, Mehdi Gmar, Eric Cusset, A. Mariani, Bertrand Perot
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
Popis: The detection of special elements that can be used by terrorists in improvised chemical weapons can be performed by the spectroscopic analysis of neutron-induced gamma rays. Numerical simulations and experiments have been performed with the aim of designing a portable inspection system. Both thermal neutron analysis (TNA) and the associated particle technique (APT) have been studied within French CBNRE (chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological and explosive) R&D program. The results obtained so far show that TNA and APT can be used in complement to reach the largest possible panel of detectable elements.
Databáze: OpenAIRE