Measurement and simulation of the neutron response of the Nordball liquid scintillator array
Författare
Summary, in English
The response of the liquid scintillator array Nordball to neutrons in the energy range 1.5 < T-n < 10 MeV has been measured by time of flight using a Cf-252 fission source. Fission fragments were detected by means of a thin-film plastic scintillator. The measured differential and integral neutron detection efficiencies agree well with predictions of a Monte Carlo simulation of the detector which models geometry accurately and incorporates the measured, non-linear proton light output as a function of energy. The ability of the model to provide systematic corrections to photoneutron cross-sections, measured by Nordball at low energy, is tested in a measurement of the two-body deuteron photodisintegration cross-section in the range E-gamma = 14-18 MeV. After correction the present H-2 (gamma, n)p measurements agree well with a published evaluation of the large body of H-2(gamma, p)n data. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2006
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
753-762
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
Volym
565
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
Nyckelord
- liquid scintillator neutron detector
- Monte Carlo simulation of neutron
- photoproduction
Status
Published
Projekt
- Charge-Symmetry Breaking in the Giant Dipole Resonance Region
- Development of Radiation Detectors and Radiation-Detection Techniques
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0167-5087