YAP scintillators for resonant detection of epithermal neutrons at pulsed neutron sources

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4880-4890

  Tardocchi, M ^a   Gorini, G ^b   Pietropaolo, A ^d   Andreani, C ^d   Senesi, R ^d   Rhodes, N ^c   Schooneveld, E M ^c  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRONS; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RESONANCE; SPECTROMETERS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

PHOTON ENERGY; RESONANT DETECTORS (RD); SCATTERING ANGLES; SIGNAL-TO-BACKGROUND RATIO;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 9644275736     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1795091     Document Type: Article

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