TY - JOUR
T1 - Plutonium measurements with a fast-neutron multiplicity counter for nuclear safeguards applications
AU - Dolan, Jennifer L.
AU - Flaska, Marek
AU - Poitrasson-Riviere, Alexis
AU - Enqvist, Andreas
AU - Peerani, Paolo
AU - Chichester, David L.
AU - Pozzi, Sara A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy ׳s Fuel Cycle Technologies Program, in the Material Protection, Accounting, and Control Technologies (MPACT) Campaign. Idaho National Laboratory is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Battelle Energy Alliance under DOE contract DE-AC07-05-ID14517 . This work was also supported by the National Science Foundation and the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the Academic Research Initiative Award # CMMI 0938909 . This research was performed under the Nuclear Forensics Graduate Fellowship Program which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ׳s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and the U.S. Department of Defense ׳s Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - Measurements were performed at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy to field test a fast-neutron multiplicity counter developed at the University of Michigan. The measurements allowed the assessment of the systems photon discrimination abilities, efficiency when measuring neutron multiplicity, ability to characterize 240Pueff mass, and performance relative to a currently deployed neutron coincidence counter. This work is motivated by the need to replace and improve upon 3He neutron detection systems for nuclear safeguards applications.
AB - Measurements were performed at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy to field test a fast-neutron multiplicity counter developed at the University of Michigan. The measurements allowed the assessment of the systems photon discrimination abilities, efficiency when measuring neutron multiplicity, ability to characterize 240Pueff mass, and performance relative to a currently deployed neutron coincidence counter. This work is motivated by the need to replace and improve upon 3He neutron detection systems for nuclear safeguards applications.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2014.06.028
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2014.06.028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904988958
VL - 763
SP - 565
EP - 574
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
SN - 0168-9002
ER -