학술논문

Development of time projection chamber for precise neutron lifetime measurement using pulsed cold neutron beams
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Nuclear Instrument sand Methods in Physics Research A, 799 (2015) 187
Subject
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Nuclear Experiment
Language
Abstract
A new time projection chamber (TPC) was developed for neutron lifetime measurement using a pulsed cold neutron spallation source at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). Managing considerable background events from natural sources and the beam radioactivity is a challenging aspect of this measurement. To overcome this problem, the developed TPC has unprecedented features such as the use of polyether-ether-ketone plates in the support structure and internal surfaces covered with $^6$Li-enriched tiles to absorb outlier neutrons. In this paper, the design and performance of the new TPC are reported in detail.
Comment: 33 pages, 10 figures