Calibration of a neutron time-of-flight multidetector system for an intensity interferometry experiment

Summary, in English

We present the details of an experiment on light particle interferometry. In particular, we focus on a time-of-flight technique which uses a cyclotron RF signal as a start and a liquid scintillator time signal as a stop, to measure neutron energy in the range of En approximate to 1.8-150 MeV. This dynamic range (up to 300 ns) is much larger than the beam bunch separation (54 ns) of the AGOR cyclotron (KVI). However, the problem of a short burst period is overcome by using the time information obtained from a fast projectile fragment phoswich detector. The complete analysis procedure to extract the final neutron kinetic energy spectra, is discussed. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

• Author: Roberta Ghetti; N Colonna; J Helgesson; Vladimir Avdeichikov; Pavel Golubev; Bo Jakobsson; G Tagliente; S Brandenburg; VL Kravchuk; HW Wilschut; S Kopecky; EW Anderson; P Nadel-Turonski; L Westerberg; V Bellini; ML Sperduto; C Sutera
• Department/s: Nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2004
• Language: English
• Pages: 492-501
• Publication/Series: Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
• Volume: 516
• Issue: 2-3
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2003.08.176
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
• Keywords: liquid scintillator; neutron detection; time-of-flight method; calibration
• Status: Published
• Research group: Hadronic Reactions
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0167-5087