A telescope proton recoil spectrometer consisting of a 500μm thick silicon detector and a 2.54 cm × 2.54 cm YAP:Ce inorganic scintillator has been developed to measure the neutron spectrum at ChipIr, a fast neutron beam line that has recently started operations at the ISIS neutron source in the UK. The spectrometer has been tested with protons in the range 5-80 MeV at the INFN-LNS cyclotron accelerator. The light yield of the YAP scintillator to protons has been characterized relative to gamma-rays of same energies and found to scale linearly with the proton energy in the whole range. Background rejection using a ΔE-E technique by combining data from the silicon and YAP:Ce detectors has also been tested successfully

Feng, S., Cazzaniga, C., Minniti, T., Nocente, M., Frost, C., Gorini, G., et al. (2018). Response of a telescope proton recoil spectrometer based on a YAP: Ce scintillator to 5-80 MeV protons for applications to measurements of the fast neutron spectrum at the ChipIr irradiation facility. NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, 912, 36-38 [10.1016/j.nima.2017.10.026].

Response of a telescope proton recoil spectrometer based on a YAP: Ce scintillator to 5-80 MeV protons for applications to measurements of the fast neutron spectrum at the ChipIr irradiation facility

Feng, S
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Nocente, M;Gorini, G;Muraro, A;Tardocchi, M
2018

Abstract

A telescope proton recoil spectrometer consisting of a 500μm thick silicon detector and a 2.54 cm × 2.54 cm YAP:Ce inorganic scintillator has been developed to measure the neutron spectrum at ChipIr, a fast neutron beam line that has recently started operations at the ISIS neutron source in the UK. The spectrometer has been tested with protons in the range 5-80 MeV at the INFN-LNS cyclotron accelerator. The light yield of the YAP scintillator to protons has been characterized relative to gamma-rays of same energies and found to scale linearly with the proton energy in the whole range. Background rejection using a ΔE-E technique by combining data from the silicon and YAP:Ce detectors has also been tested successfully
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Neutron spectroscopy; Proton recoil telescope; Scintillators; Nuclear and High Energy Physics; Instrumentation
English
18-ott-2017
2018
912
36
38
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Feng, S., Cazzaniga, C., Minniti, T., Nocente, M., Frost, C., Gorini, G., et al. (2018). Response of a telescope proton recoil spectrometer based on a YAP: Ce scintillator to 5-80 MeV protons for applications to measurements of the fast neutron spectrum at the ChipIr irradiation facility. NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, 912, 36-38 [10.1016/j.nima.2017.10.026].
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