A new era of nuclear criticality experiments: the first 10 years of radiation test object operations at NCERC

J Hutchinson, J Bounds, T Cutler… - Nuclear Science and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The work presented in this paper focuses on the first 10 years (2011–2020) of radiation test
object (RTO) operations at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center. RTOs are …

A compact MPPC-based camera for omnidirectional (4π) fast-neutron imaging based on double neutron–proton elastic scattering

X Pang, Z Zhang, J Zhang, W Zhou, Y Zhang… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Neutron localization, which finds (localizes) neutron sources, is a non-destructive method
used in the application of nuclear emergency response and special nuclear material (SNM) …

A diamond double-sided strip detector for alpha-tagging in associated particle imaging

C Ahl, C Delzer, A Benkechkache, X Wen… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In associated particle imaging, neutrons from deuterium-tritium fusion are used to interrogate
objects of interest. The associated particle imaging technique utilizes an alpha-tagging …

FABRICATION, measurements, and modeling of semiconductor radiation detectors for imaging and detector response functions

CD Ahl - 2023 - trace.tennessee.edu
In the first part of this dissertation, we cover the development of a diamond semiconductor
alpha-tagging sensor for associated particle imaging to solve challenges with currently …

Pulsed neutron interrogation with PVT plastic scintillators to detect nuclear materials

R De Stefano, B Pérot, C Carasco, E Simon… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the framework of homeland security, the Nuclear Measurements Laboratory of CEA
Cadarache is studying the detection of Special Nuclear Materials hidden in sea-going cargo …

Non-classical applications of chemical analysis based on nuclear activation

M Grdeń - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2020 - Springer
The manuscript reviews several selected applications of Activation Analysis that differ from
classical laboratory measurements by the fact that they do not require sampling of the …

Neutron multiplicity moments with detector cross-talk

EO Cohen, C Dubi, R Yankovich - … Methods in Physics Research Section A …, 2021 - Elsevier
Passive neutron multiplicity counting (NMC) methods extract the intensity of a primary fission
source from the measured moments of the count distribution. This extraction is typically …

[PDF][PDF] Light transport modelling of pulse shape discrimination within plastic scintillators

MWJ Hubbard - 2020 - openresearch.surrey.ac.uk
Plastic scintillators are used in scenarios where gamma-ray identification is necessary and
can be scaled to large sizes for use in applications such as particle physics and nuclear …