https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159307003
Enhancing the Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Experiments
1 Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
a e-mail: acouture@lanl.gov
Published online: 28 May 2015
The Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Experiments (DANCE) has been used for extensive studies of neutron capture, gamma decay, photon strength functions, and prompt and delayed fission-gamma emission. Despite these successes, the potential measurements have been limited by the data acquisition hardware. We report on a major upgrade of the DANCE data acquisition that simultaneously enables strait-forward coupling to auxiliary detectors, including high-resolution high-purity germanium detectors and neutron tagging array. The upgrade will enhance the time domain accessible for time-of-flight neutron measurements as well as improve the resolution in the DANCE barium fluoride crystals for photons.
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