Very compact high performance microchannel plate thermal neutron collimators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 III, 2004, Pages 1020-1024

  Tremsin, Anton S ^a   Mildner, David F R ^b   Feller, W Bruce ^c   Downing, R Gregory ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NOVA Scientific Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimators; Neutron optics

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; GLASS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRON REFLECTION; NEUTRON SOURCES; POLYETHYLENES; SILICON WAFERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON OPTICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; THERMAL NEUTRONS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

EID: 3342982464     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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