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A new scintillating-fiber-array neutron detector

  • Qianmei Zhang
  • , Qunshu Wang
  • , Zhongsheng Xie
  • , Jinyun Cao
  • , Shengli Niu
  • , Xiaoping Ouyang

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Abstract

A new scintillating-fiber-array neutron detector has been developed. The detector consists of a bee-hive-shaped lead absorber, a scintillating fiber array, a light guide, a filter and a photomultiplier tube. The experimental results show that the new detector's neuron-to-gamma sensitivity ratio is improved about six times compared to traditional plastic scintillation detectors to 2.5 MeV neutrons and 1.25 MeV gamma rays. Hence, the detector should be very useful in the measurements of pulsed neutrons from fission reactions in a neutron-gamma mixed field.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)708-715
Number of pages8
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume486
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2002
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Neutron measurement
  • Neutron-gamma mixed field
  • Neutron-to-gamma sensitivity ratio
  • Scintillating fiber

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