A new concept of thermal neutron counting with sub-microsecond timing resolution

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1664-1669

  Tremsin, Anton S ^a   Feller, W Bruce ^b   Siegmund, Oswald H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOVA Scientific Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Event counting; High resolution timing; Neutron imaging

Indexed keywords

COLD NEUTRONS; NEW CONCEPT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION (SR); SUB-MICROSECOND; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

EID: 45849096880     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.924071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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