Conveners
Session 11: Neutron Physics
- Andy Buffler (UCT)
Nuclear data in general, and neutron-induced reaction cross sections in particular, are important for a wide variety of research fields. The neutron time-of-flight facility (n_TOF) at CERN has been one of the leading international facilities for high-precision neutron-induced reaction studies for over two decades. Conceived in the late 1990s by Carlo Rubbia [1], n_TOF was designed to provide...
Silicon and diamond detectors have been extensively investigated as neutron spectrometers for characterizing high-energy neutron fields. Our work particularly focuses on the characterization of atmospheric-like neutron spectra generated by spallation sources, which are essential for single event effect (SEE) testing of microelectronics at neutron energies up to 800 MeV. Diamond detectors are...
The advent of new facilities for radioactive ion beams mainly rich in neutrons, like SPES @ LNL, FRAISE @ LNS and FAIR @ GSI only to give some examples, imposes the joint detection and discrimination of neutrons and charged particles in Heavy radioactive Ion collisions, with high angular and energy resolution. The construction of novel detection systems suitable for this experimental task is...
The neutron production capability of the 1.7 MV Tandem accelerator, located at the Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina, has been evaluated using the nuclear reaction $^{45}\text{Sc}(p, n)^{45}\text{Ti}$. It is known that if the scandium (Sc) target is thin enough and the incident protons have a well-defined energy in the range from 2908.98 keV to 2948.89 keV, monoenergetic neutrons can be...
