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Calibration technique for neutron dosimeters using pulsed white neutron sources
- Open the door to obtaining the energy response curve of neutron dosimeters experimentally -

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Tetsuro MATSUMOTO
Metrology Institute of Japan
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Neutron dosimeters are important in various industrial applications such as at nuclear plants. The responses of neutron dosimeters are usually calibrated using monoenergetic neutrons of discretely limited energy points. We have developed a new calibration method to obtain a continuous response curve of a neutron dosimeter using pulsed white neutrons from 1 meV to 20 MeV all at once. The pulsed white neutrons are produced from the 7Li(d,n) reaction or Ta(γ,n) reaction with a thick target. In the calibration method, the response curve is determined by two-dimensional measurements of pulse height and neutron time of flight. It is expected that the calibration method will broaden application to more precise neutron dose evaluation in various fields such as work places with inherent spectra.

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Schematic view of the concept of the calibration method with pulsed white neutron sources
The calibration is performed by two-dimensional measurements using pulse height and neutron time of flight outputs obtained from the neutron dosimeter. The graph shows the white neutron spectrum produced by the Ta(γ,n) reaction and water moderation.

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