학술논문
DESCANT and β-delayed neutron measurements at TRIUMF
Document Type
article
Author
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.
Source
EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 93, p 07005 (2015)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2100-014X
20159307
20159307
Abstract
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.