CHARACTERIZATION AND COMPARSION OF NEUTRON GENERATORS OF IEC
AND LINEAR D-T BY THE SPECTROMETRIC SYSTEM NGA-01

D 2021

CHARACTERIZATION AND COMPARSION OF NEUTRON GENERATORS OF IEC AND LINEAR D-T BY THE SPECTROMETRIC SYSTEM NGA-01

MATĚJ, Zdeněk, Michal KOŠŤÁL, Evžen NOVÁK, Petr ALEXA, Radim UHLÁŘ et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

CHARACTERIZATION AND COMPARSION OF NEUTRON GENERATORS OF IEC AND LINEAR D-T BY THE SPECTROMETRIC SYSTEM NGA-01

Autoři

MATĚJ, Zdeněk (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Michal KOŠŤÁL (203 Česká republika), Evžen NOVÁK (203 Česká republika), Petr ALEXA (203 Česká republika), Radim UHLÁŘ (203 Česká republika), Filip MRAVEC (203 Česká republika, domácí), Aleš JANČÁŘ (203 Česká republika, domácí), František CVACHOVEC (203 Česká republika), Václav PŘENOSIL (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Petr JANČÁŘ (203 Česká republika)

Vydání

Cambridge, PHYSOR2020 conference proceedings, od s. 1-8, 8 s. 2021

Nakladatel

Nuclear Energy research Group

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

10304 Nuclear physics

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14330/21:00120652

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta informatiky

ISBN

978-1-5272-6447-2

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124718004

Klíčová slova anglicky

Linear neutron generator; IEC neutron generator

Změněno: 23. 5. 2022 14:38, RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

This article focuses on description of two different neutron fields from linear and cylindrical Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) neutron generators. Both of these generators are well defined and commonly used. They use a deuterium-tritium reaction that produces neutrons with energies in the range 13 – 16 MeV, depending on the direction and the energy of the incoming deuterium nucleus. Two-parametric spectrometric system for neutron/gamma mixed fields NGA-01 was used to characterize neutron spectra in the proximity of generators. The cylindrical 45x45 mm stilbene scintillator was connected to this device using an active voltage divider. This way, we were able to measure neutron energies in the range 1 - 15 MeV while filtering out gamma radiation, even when counts per second is high. For the neutron spectrum calculation recoil spectra using deconvolution through maximum likelihood estimation was used. Measured neutron spectra have been compared with simulations realized via MCNP6. According to the theoretical prediction, these two types of generators produce different neutron fields. In case of the linear generator the target is very close to point located tritium bombarded by deuterons. Thus the neutron spectrum varies depending on the angle between the detector axis and the axis of the generator. Both experimental results and simulation show a shift of the neutron energy peak in pulse height histogram. For IEC type generators the neutron spectrum is more complicated. The shape and the position of the neutron energy peak depend heavily on the position of the detector. The most prominent effect is in the position in the plane perpendicular to the generator axis. In this case, the peak splits into two peaks that can be measured and distinguished. These results were verified by the diamond detector which was also used for characterization of the IEC type generator.

Citovat

MATĚJ, Zdeněk, Michal KOŠŤÁL, Evžen NOVÁK, Petr ALEXA, Radim UHLÁŘ, Filip MRAVEC, Aleš JANČÁŘ, František CVACHOVEC, Václav PŘENOSIL a Petr JANČÁŘ. CHARACTERIZATION AND COMPARSION OF NEUTRON GENERATORS OF IEC AND LINEAR D-T BY THE SPECTROMETRIC SYSTEM NGA-01. Online. In Ieuan Davies. PHYSOR2020 conference proceedings. Cambridge: Nuclear Energy research Group, 2021, s. 1-8. ISBN 978-1-5272-6447-2. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124718004.

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MATĚJ, Zdeněk, Michal KOŠŤÁL, Evžen NOVÁK, Petr ALEXA, Radim UHLÁŘ, Filip MRAVEC, Aleš JANČÁŘ, František CVACHOVEC, Václav PŘENOSIL a Petr JANČÁŘ. CHARACTERIZATION AND COMPARSION OF NEUTRON GENERATORS OF IEC AND LINEAR D-T BY THE SPECTROMETRIC SYSTEM NGA-01. Online. In Ieuan Davies. \textit{PHYSOR2020 conference proceedings}. Cambridge: Nuclear Energy research Group, 2021, s.~1-8. ISBN~978-1-5272-6447-2. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124718004.

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