High-performance neutron detector for radiography and small-angle scattering: neutron detection with astronomical CCDs

Burkhard Schillinger; Christian Rausch

doi:10.1117/12.176737

1 June 1994 High-performance neutron detector for radiography and small-angle scattering: neutron detection with astronomical CCDs

Burkhard Schillinger, Christian Rausch

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Proceedings Volume 2198, Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176737
Event: 1994 Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation for the 21st Century, 1994, Kailua, Kona, HI, United States

Abstract

A high detectivity CCD camera has successfully been used to detect the faint light of a neutron scintillator. We present our first prototype of such a neutron detector with an active area of up to 28*28 cm² and we show several high-resolution radiographs taken with it. After some further improvements, this detector will be sensitive enough to detect a few single neutrons on an area as large as 0.5*0.5 m², thus making it feasible for small-angle scattering with sufficient size and very high resolution.

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Burkhard Schillinger and Christian Rausch "High-performance neutron detector for radiography and small-angle scattering: neutron detection with astronomical CCDs", Proc. SPIE 2198, Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII, (1 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176737

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