Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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  • Pages.1277-1281
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  • 2020
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  • 1738-5733(pISSN)
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  • 2234-358X(eISSN)
한국원자력학회 (Korean Nuclear Society)
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A novel ceramic GEM used for neutron detection

  • Zhou, Jianrong (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University) ;
  • Zhou, Xiaojuan (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Zhou, Jianjin (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University) ;
  • Jiang, Xingfen (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Yang, Jianqing (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Zhu, Lin (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Yang, Wenqin (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Yang, Tao (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Xu, Hong (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Xia, Yuanguang (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Yang, Gui-an (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Xie, Yuguang (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Huang, Chaoqiang (Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, China Academy of Engineering Physics) ;
  • Hu, Bitao (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University) ;
  • Sun, Zhijia (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center) ;
  • Chen, Yuanbo (Spallation Neutron Source Science Center)
  • 투고 : 2019.10.30
  • 심사 : 2019.11.20
  • 발행 : 2020.06.25
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A novel ceramic Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) has been developed to meet the demand of high counting rate for the neutron detection which is an alternative to 3He-based detector at China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). An experiment was performed to measure the neutron transmittance of ceramic-GEM and FR4-GEM at the small angle neutron scattering (SANS) instrument. The result showed the ceramic-GEM has higher transmittance and less self-scattering especially for cold neutrons. One single ceramic GEM could give a gain of 102-104 in the mixture gas of Ar and CO2 (90%:10%) and its energy resolution was about 27.7% by using 55Fe X ray of 5.9 keV. A prototype has been developed in order to investigate the performances of the ceramic GEM-based neutron detector. Several neutron beam tests, including detection efficiency, spatial resolution, two-dimensional imaging, and wavelength spectrum, were carried out at CSNS and China Mianyang Research Reactor (CMRR). The results show that the ceramic GEM-based neutron detector is a good candidate to measure the high intensity neutrons.

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