Characterization of the neutron field at the ISIS-VESUVIO facility by means of a bonner sphere spectrometer

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 612, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 143-148

  Bedogni, Roberto ^a   Esposito, Adolfo ^a   Andreani, Carla ^b   Senesi, Roberto ^b   De Pascale, Maria Pia ^b   Picozza, Piergiorgio ^b   Pietropaolo, Antonino ^c   Gorini, Giuseppe ^c   Frost, Christopher D ^a,b,c,d   Ansell, Stewart ^d  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bonner spheres; Neutron induced effects; Neutron spectrometry; Single events effects

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED TESTING; BEAM LINES; BONNER SPHERE SPECTROMETER; BONNER SPHERES; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ENERGY INTERVAL; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; FLUENCE RATES; FLUENCES; HIGH RELIABILITY; HIGH-ENERGY ACCELERATOR; HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRON; INTEGRAL QUANTITY; IRRADIATION FACILITIES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NEUTRON FIELDS; NEUTRON PHYSICS; NEUTRON SPECTRA; NEUTRON SPECTROMETRY; PULSED NEUTRON SOURCES; RADIATION TRANSPORT CODES; SINGLE EVENT; SINGLE EVENT EFFECTS; SINGLE EVENTS EFFECTS; SPECTROMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; COSMOLOGY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IONIZING RADIATION; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS; NEUTRONS; SECONDARY EMISSION; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SPHERES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

EID: 71649116078     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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