Detection of explosive remnants of war by neutron thermalisation

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-127

  Brooks, F D ^a   Drosg, M ^b   Smit, F D ^c   Wikner, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Humanitarian demining; HYDAD; Landmine detector; Neutron backscattering

Indexed keywords

ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES; COVER DEPTH; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; FALSE ALARM RATE; HUMANITARIAN DEMINING; HYDAD; LANDMINE; LANDMINE DETECTOR; NEUTRON BACKSCATTERING; SOIL CONDITIONS; TEST OBJECT; THERMALISATION;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); DETECTORS; ERRORS; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EXPLOSIVES;

HYDROGEN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON RADIATION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NEUTRON THERMALISATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SOIL ANALYSIS;

EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NEUTRONS; SOIL; TRANSDUCERS; WAR; WEAPONS;

EID: 80955142810     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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