Neutron spectrum measurement in D+Be reaction

Abstract

In this project the neutron spectra from the reaction of deutron on beryllium muclei is measured. The energies of deuterons were 7, 10, 13 and 15 MeV, and these measurements are performed at 10, 30 and 50 degrees relative to the beam of deutrons. The detector used is 76 by 76 mm right circular cylender of NE-213 liquid scintillator. The zero crossing technique is used for gamma discriminatin. For the elimination of the background radiation, a Polyethylene block, 40 cm in thickness, with inserted cadmium sheets, and a lead block, 5 cm in thickness, were used. In order to obtain the background radiation spectrum, the latter blocks were placed between the target and the detector to eliminate neutron and gamma radiations reaching the detector directly. FORIST code is used to unfold the neutron spectra from the measured pulse hight spectra and O5S and RESPMG codes are used to obtain the detector response matrix.

Keywords

• deuteron
• beryllium
• Ne-213 scintillator
• pulse shape discrimination
• neutron energy spectrum
• FORIST code