Neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy measurement using a waveform digitizer

Long-Xiang Liu; Hong-Wei Wang; Yu-Gang Ma; Xi-Guang Cao; Xiang-Zhou Cai; Jin-Gen Chen; Gui-Lin Zhang; Jian-Long Han; Guo-Qiang Zhang; Ji-Feng Hu; Xiao-He Wang

doi:10.1088/1674-1137/40/5/056202

Chinese Physics C> 2016, Vol. 40> Issue(5) : 056202 DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/5/056202

Neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy measurement using a waveform digitizer

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Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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Key Laboratory of Nuclear Radiation and Nuclear Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 201800, China
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Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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The photoneutron source(PNS, phase 1), an electron linear accelerator(linac)-based pulsed neutron facility that uses the time-of-flight(TOF) technique, was constructed for the acquisition of nuclear data from the Thorium Molten Salt Reactor(TMSR) at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics(SINAP). The neutron detector signal used for TOF calculation, with information on the pulse arrival time, pulse shape, and pulse height, was recorded by using a waveform digitizer(WFD). By using the pulse height and pulse-shape discrimination(PSD) analysis to identify neutrons and γ-rays, the neutron TOF spectrum was obtained by employing a simple electronic design, and a new WFD-based DAQ system was developed and tested in this commissioning experiment. The DAQ system developed is characterized by a very high efficiency with respect to millisecond neutron TOF spectroscopy.
- neutron spectroscopy ,
- scintillator ,
- waveform digitizer ,
- pulse-shape discrimination(PSD) ,
- time-of-flight(TOF)

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Long-Xiang Liu, Hong-Wei Wang, Yu-Gang Ma, Xi-Guang Cao, Xiang-Zhou Cai, Jin-Gen Chen, Gui-Lin Zhang, Jian-Long Han, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Ji-Feng Hu and Xiao-He Wang. Neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy measurement using a waveform digitizer[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2016, 40(5): 056202. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/5/056202

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