DESCANT and β-delayed neutron measurements at TRIUMF
oleh: Bildstein V., Garrett P.E., Ashley S.F., Ball G.C., Bianco L., Bandyopadhyay D., Bangay J., Crider B.P., Demand G., Deng G., Dillmann I., Finlay A., Garnsworthy A.B., Hackman G., Hadinia B., Krücken R., Leach K.G., Martin J-P., McEllistrem M.T., Pearson C.J., Peters E.E., Prados-Estévez F.M., Radich A., Sarazin F., Sumithrarachchi C., Svensson C.E., Vanhoy J.R., Wong J., Yates S.W.
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| Diterbitkan: | EDP Sciences 2015-01-01 |
Deskripsi
The DESCANT array (Deuterated Scintillator Array for Neutron Tagging) consists of up to 70 detectors, each filled with approximately 2 liters of deuterated benzene. This scintillator material o_ers pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) capabilities to distinguish between neutrons and γ-rays interacting with the scintillator material. In addition, the anisotropic nature of n – d scattering allows for the determination of the neutron energy spectrum directly from the pulse height spectrum, complementing the traditional time-of-flight (ToF) information. DESCANT can be coupled either to the TIGRESS (TRIUMF-ISAC Gamma-Ray Escape Suppressed Spectrometer) γ-ray spectrometer [1] located in the ISAC-II [2] hall of TRIUMF for in-beam experiments, or to the GRIFFIN (Gamma-Ray Infrastructure For Fundamental Investigations of Nuclei) γ-ray spectrometer [3] located in the ISAC-I hall of TRIUMF for decay spectroscopy experiments.