https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124716001
DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF RESPONSE MODELLING FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT NEUTRON DETECTION AND IMAGING SYSTEMS
1 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom
2 Department of Engineering, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
steve.bradnam@ukaea.uk
v.astromskas@lancaster.ac.uk
zamir.ghani@ukaea.uk
mark.gilbert@ukaea.uk
m.joyce@lancaster.ac.uk
lee.packer@ukaea.uk
Published online: 22 February 2021
The application and feasibility of a time-of-flight neutron detection system is explored for sources with time correlated gamma-ray and neutron emissions, such as the spontaneous fission emitter, Cf-252. For the emission of multiple gamma rays and neutrons from a single spontaneous fission event, a near instantaneous gamma-ray detection followed by a later neutron detection on a multi-detector array allows for an associated time-of-flight to be determined for a neutron arising from that event. Using a suite of purpose developed analysis tools, Monte-Carlo simulation and experimental data are compared for the Cf-252 water tank source facility at Lancaster University. Applying a bespoke time-of-flight imaging algorithm, vector-based optimisation (VBO), the true source location is determined within 21 cm by this approach.
Key words: neutron / time-of-flight / imaging / simulation / detector
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