Study of the RPC-Gd as thermal neutron detector

QIAN Sen; WANG Yi-Fang; ZHANG Jia-Wen; LI Jin; CHEN Yuan-Bo; CHEN Jin; WANG Zhi-Gang; MA Lie-Hua

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Chinese Physics C> 2009, Vol. 33> Issue(9) : 769-773 DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/33/9/011

Study of the RPC-Gd as thermal neutron detector

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The BESⅢ RPC with Gd coating as thermal neutron detector was designed and constructed. Three prototypes were built with different techniques of producing the gadolinium converter. The performance of the cosmic ray test, the signal and the radiation spectrum were discussed in this paper. Lastly, the efficiency of one prototype with the best performance for detecting the thermal neutron was tested as 8.7%.

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QIAN Sen, WANG Yi-Fang, ZHANG Jia-Wen, LI Jin, CHEN Yuan-Bo, CHEN Jin, WANG Zhi-Gang and MA Lie-Hua. Study of the RPC-Gd as thermal neutron detector[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2009, 33(9): 769-773. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/33/9/011

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Study of the RPC-Gd as thermal neutron detector

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The BESⅢ RPC with Gd coating as thermal neutron detector was designed and constructed. Three prototypes were built with different techniques of producing the gadolinium converter. The performance of the cosmic ray test, the signal and the radiation spectrum were discussed in this paper. Lastly, the efficiency of one prototype with the best performance for detecting the thermal neutron was tested as 8.7%.

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