A 3He neutron detector for the measurement of (α, n) reactions

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

Volumn 700, Issue , 2013, Pages 53-58

  Falahat, Sascha ^a,b   Best, Andreas ^a   Couder, Manoel ^a   Görres, Joachim ^a   Kratz, Karl Ludwig ^b   Ott, Uli ^b   Stech, Ed ^a   Wiescher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3He counter; Monte Carlo simulation; Neutron detector

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRONS;

NUCLEAR ASTRO-PHYSICS; POLYETHYLENE MATRIX; SCIENCE LABORATORIES; UNDERGROUND LABORATORY; UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84869865988     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.10.036     Document Type: Article

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