TY - GEN
T1 - Characterization of cadmium capture-gated detector for nuclear nonproliferation applications
AU - Flaska, M.
AU - Clarke, S. D.
AU - Lawrence, C. C.
AU - Pozzi, S. A.
AU - Czirr, J. B.
AU - Rees, L. B.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Almost all commercially applied neutron-counting systems employ 3He tubes for detection of thermal neutrons. However, due to a large number of 3He systems deployed in the field, there is currently a severe shortage of 3He gas. Therefore, novel neutron detection systems are desirable, especially because a large number of detection systems are needed to meet current security demands. One class of detectors that has been explored is capture-gated scintillation detectors which consist of a standard scintillation detector (plastic or liquid) that has been modified to include a neutron capturing isotope. The capture-gated neutron-spectroscopy principle is based on the fact that a single neutron that interacts in a capture-gated detector can create two pulses that are related in time. In this work, we present simulation and measurement results for a cadmium/plastic- scintillator capture-gated detector. The detector consists of 13, 1-cm thick BC-408 plastic-scintillator layers and 12, 0.1-mm thick natCd layers. This detector possesses unique detection characteristics that could find use in nuclear nonproliferation applications.
AB - Almost all commercially applied neutron-counting systems employ 3He tubes for detection of thermal neutrons. However, due to a large number of 3He systems deployed in the field, there is currently a severe shortage of 3He gas. Therefore, novel neutron detection systems are desirable, especially because a large number of detection systems are needed to meet current security demands. One class of detectors that has been explored is capture-gated scintillation detectors which consist of a standard scintillation detector (plastic or liquid) that has been modified to include a neutron capturing isotope. The capture-gated neutron-spectroscopy principle is based on the fact that a single neutron that interacts in a capture-gated detector can create two pulses that are related in time. In this work, we present simulation and measurement results for a cadmium/plastic- scintillator capture-gated detector. The detector consists of 13, 1-cm thick BC-408 plastic-scintillator layers and 12, 0.1-mm thick natCd layers. This detector possesses unique detection characteristics that could find use in nuclear nonproliferation applications.
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873727
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873727
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960303831
SN - 9781424491063
T3 - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
SP - 114
EP - 118
BT - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposuim and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2010 and 17th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-ray and Gamma-ray Detectors, RTSD 2010
Y2 - 30 October 2010 through 6 November 2010
ER -