Direction-position sensing fast neutron detector
AssigneePurdue Research Foundation
InventorsRusi P. Taleyarkhan, Brian Archambault
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AssigneePurdue Research Foundation
InventorsRusi P. Taleyarkhan, Brian Archambault
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A directional-position sensing fast neutron sensor system is disclosed. The system includes one or more acoustically tensioned metastable fluid detector (ATMFD) for determining the direction of the source of incident neutron radiation. The system has been used to detect the position of a 1 Ci Pu—Be neutron radiation source. The ATMFD detector is comparable in technical performance with directional fast neutron detector-bank technologies but is significantly more economical, smaller, and has little to no interference from nonneutron background radiation. The ATMFD detector can be used to locate hidden neutron sources and has been used in blind tests to do so. Specifically an ATMFD system (with a 6×10 cm cross-sectional area) provides directional information for incoming neutron radiation from an 8 kg Pu source from a distance of 25 m with a resolution of 11.2° at a 68% confidence within 60 seconds. Position and neutron source image sensing were also demonstrated using two ATMFDs.
A neutron detection system for determining the direction of the source of incident neutron radiation comprising a microprocessor and a detecting chamber system containing at least two axis of symmetry containing a fluid configured with a plurality of detecting transducers for detecting bubbles within the chamber system and acoustic transducers for establishing acoustically tensioned metastable state within the liquid in the chamber system that is radially symmetric along the at least two axis of symmetry;
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