TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of scintillating-fiber detector response for 14 MeV neutron measurement
AU - Pu, N.
AU - Nishitani, T.
AU - Isobe, M.
AU - Ogawa, K.
AU - Matsuyama, S.
AU - Miwa, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
First author wishes to express his thanks for support for this research from NIFS Associate Research and Kakuyugo Kagaku Kenkyukai in Japan, and the Travel budget of the SOKENDAI for travel to Tohoku University. All authors wish to thank Dr. G. A. Wurden for the development of the Sci-Fi detector. The accelerator experiment is funded by NIFS Collaboration Research Program No. KOAH033, and the neutron measurement of the Sci-Fi detector in the LHD experiment is funded by the LHD project budgets (Nos. ULHH003 and ULHH034).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - A scintillating-fiber (Sci-Fi) detector has been employed to measure 14 MeV neutrons for the triton burnup study in the first deuterium plasma campaign of the Large Helical Device (LHD). The pulse-height spectra of the Sci-Fi detector are used to choose a suitable threshold for the discrimination of 14 MeV neutrons from a mix-radiation field of low-energy neutrons and gamma-rays. The measured pulse-height spectra of the Sci-Fi detector have two components with different decay slopes from the LHD experiment. To study the pulse-height property of the Sci-Fi detector, the pulse-height spectra on different energy neutrons have been measured by using the accelerator-based neutron source with d-D, p-Li, and d-Li reactions. Meanwhile, the simulations of the detector response have been performed by using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS). In the LHD experiment, the first decay component of the pulse-height spectra in low-pulse-height region has been found to correspond to the signals induced by 2.45 MeV neutrons and gamma-rays. In addition, the high-pulse-height region has been confirmed by both the accelerator experiment and the PHITS calculation to correspond to the recoil-proton edge induced by triton burnup 14 MeV neutrons. The detection efficiency of 14 MeV neutrons for the Sci-Fi detector calculated by the PHITS code agrees well with the detection efficiency of 14 MeV neutrons for the Sci-Fi detector evaluated in the LHD experiment. The Sci-Fi detector can work as a standard detector for the 14 MeV neutron measurement with a suitable threshold.
AB - A scintillating-fiber (Sci-Fi) detector has been employed to measure 14 MeV neutrons for the triton burnup study in the first deuterium plasma campaign of the Large Helical Device (LHD). The pulse-height spectra of the Sci-Fi detector are used to choose a suitable threshold for the discrimination of 14 MeV neutrons from a mix-radiation field of low-energy neutrons and gamma-rays. The measured pulse-height spectra of the Sci-Fi detector have two components with different decay slopes from the LHD experiment. To study the pulse-height property of the Sci-Fi detector, the pulse-height spectra on different energy neutrons have been measured by using the accelerator-based neutron source with d-D, p-Li, and d-Li reactions. Meanwhile, the simulations of the detector response have been performed by using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS). In the LHD experiment, the first decay component of the pulse-height spectra in low-pulse-height region has been found to correspond to the signals induced by 2.45 MeV neutrons and gamma-rays. In addition, the high-pulse-height region has been confirmed by both the accelerator experiment and the PHITS calculation to correspond to the recoil-proton edge induced by triton burnup 14 MeV neutrons. The detection efficiency of 14 MeV neutrons for the Sci-Fi detector calculated by the PHITS code agrees well with the detection efficiency of 14 MeV neutrons for the Sci-Fi detector evaluated in the LHD experiment. The Sci-Fi detector can work as a standard detector for the 14 MeV neutron measurement with a suitable threshold.
KW - Fast neutrons
KW - Gas and liquid scintillators
KW - Neutron detectors cold
KW - Nuclear instruments and methods for hot plasma diagnostics
KW - Scintillation and light emission processes solid
KW - Scintillators
KW - Spectral responses
KW - Thermal
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U2 - 10.1088/1748-0221/14/10/P10015
DO - 10.1088/1748-0221/14/10/P10015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084330158
VL - 14
JO - Journal of Instrumentation
JF - Journal of Instrumentation
SN - 1748-0221
IS - 10
M1 - P10015
ER -