Development of gamma insensitive silicon carbide diagnostics to qualify intense thermal and epithermal neutron fields
| Autor: | Planell, O. Sans, Costa, M., Durisi, E., Lega, A., Mafucci, E., Menzio, L., Monti, V., Visca, L., Bedogni, R., Treccani, M., Pola, A., Bortot, D., Alikaniotis, K., Giannini, G., Gomez-Ros, J. M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-0221/15/06/C06021 |
| Popis: | The e_LiBANS project aims at creating accelerator based compact neutron facilities for diverse interdisciplinary applications. After the successful setting up and characterization of a thermal neutron source based on a medical electron LINAC, a similar assembly for epithermal neutrons has been developed. The project is based on an Elekta 18 MV LINAC coupled with a photoconverter-moderator system which deploys the ({\gamma},n) photonuclear reaction to convert a bremsstrahlung photon beam into a neutron field. This communication describes the development of novel diagnostics to qualify the thermal and epithermal neutron fields that have been produced. In particular, a proof of concept for the use of silicon carbide photodiodes as a thermal neutron rate detector is presented. Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication to JINST on the 17th April 2020 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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