Interesting paper on Neutron Measurement Techniques

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Interesting paper on Neutron Measurement Techniques

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Here is a link to a paper on measuring the neutron flux around high energy x-ray machines. It discusses the use of indium and gold foil activation methods and also a method of using phosphorous pentoxide either as a powder or in solution along with a scintillation probe:

https://aapm.org/pubs/reports/RPT_19.pdf

They are dealing with high flux rates but the methods and analysis they present may be useful for our experiments.


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Another very interesting paper, this time a doctoral thesis by D.M.Bibby on 14MeV neutron production and detection:

https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui ... -Bibby.pdf

He discusses the construction details of a beam on target neutron source and various activation methods of neutron detection.

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These are (Gamma, n) neutron production systems. The gamma/x-ray needed for this reaction are far beyond our fusor outputs. The fluxes are also huge. There are no real new ideas here in neutron detection.

While the x-ray to neutron ratios may be similar between the systems noted and our fusor, the neutron flux off the systems are vastly different.

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