NDLI: The efficiency of thermal neutron detection and collimation with microchannel plates of square and circular geometry

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Author	Tremsin, A.S. Feller, W.B. Downing, R.G. Mildner, D.F.R.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Space Sci. Lab., UC Berkeley, CA, USA (Tremsin, A.S.)
Abstract	Detectors with microchannel plates (MCPs) are currently widely used in photon and charged particle detection with high spatial (/spl sim/10 /spl mu/m) and temporal (<0.5 ns) resolution. All the advances in MCP detection technologies can be successfully implemented for the detection of thermal neutrons by using microchannel plates manufactured from a modified glass mixture doped with neutron absorbing atoms. In this paper we compare the efficiency of thermal neutron detection for two standard MCP geometries: circular-pore and square-pore microchannel plates doped with the /sup 10/B isotope. The results of our modeling indicate that the detection of thermal neutrons with a square-pore MCP is 11-23% more efficient than for the circular geometry, and can be as high as /spl sim/80% for the existing MCP technology. The same microchannel plates can be used as very efficient and compact thermal neutron collimators. In this paper we compare the efficiency of circular- and square-pore MCP collimators with the help of our model, the validity of which has already been verified by our experimental measurements reported last year. The rocking curve of 5 mm and 2.5 mm thick MCPs doped with 3 mole% of /sup nat/Gd/sub 2/O/sub 3/ is predicted to be only /spl plusmn/0.1/spl deg/ and /spl plusmn/0.3/spl deg/ wide, respectively, for both geometries. A very compact device with high thermal neutron detection efficiency and angular sensitivity can be built by combining an MCP neutron detector with an MCP collimator.
Starting Page	340
Ending Page	344
File Size	655840
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780387007
ISSN	10823654
e-ISBN	0780387015
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462209
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-10-16
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Neutrons Collimators Microchannel Geometry Detectors Spatial resolution Glass manufacturing Isotopes Solid modeling Network address translation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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