Superheated drops of R114—as a neutron spectrometer |
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Authors: | Mala Das B. K. Chatterjee B. Roy S. C. Roy |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics, Bose Institute, 93/1 A.P.C. Road, Calcutta-700009, India |
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Abstract: | The basic principle that has been used in the application of superheated drops in neutron spectrometry is its dependence of threshold energy of nucleation on temperature. In the present work, superheated drops of R114 suspended in a visco-elastic gel were irradiated at different temperatures by neutrons obtained from an 241Am–Be source. The temperature of the detector was converted to the energy of the incident neutrons following the method developed by us to unfold the neutron energy spectrum. The threshold energy obtained by us agrees well with other results obtained using monochromatic neutron sources, clearly demonstrating the validity of our principle of spectrometry. |
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Keywords: | Superheated drop detector Neutron Spectrometry |
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