TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of response functions of a liquid organic scintillator for neutrons up to 800 Me V
AU - Satoh, Daiki
AU - Sato, Tatsuhiko
AU - Endo, Akira
AU - Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro
AU - Takada, Masashi
AU - Ishibashi, Kenji
N1 - Funding Information:
We express our gratitude to Dr. T. Murakami and the staff operating the HIMAC for their support of our experiments. We also thank Dr. S. Taniguchi, Dr. M. Sasaki, Dr. N. Nakao, and Dr. T. Nakamura for their helpful discussions and advice on this study. This work was performed as a Research Project with Heavy Ions at NIRS-HIMAC, and was partially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture by a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (no. 16760692, 2004).
PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - Response functions of a BC501A liquid organic scintillator for neutrons up to 800 MeV have been measured at the heavy-ion accelerator of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan. A thick graphite target was bombarded with 400-MeV/u C ions and 800-MeV/u Si ions to produce high-energy neutrons whose kinetic energy was determined by the time-of-flight method. The measured response functions were compared with the results obtained using SCINFUL-QMD code, and the accuracy of the code was experimentally verified up to 800 MeV. This work will contribute to extending the energies measurable with our new radiation dose-monitoring system (DARWIN), which is based on the BC501A scintillator.
AB - Response functions of a BC501A liquid organic scintillator for neutrons up to 800 MeV have been measured at the heavy-ion accelerator of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan. A thick graphite target was bombarded with 400-MeV/u C ions and 800-MeV/u Si ions to produce high-energy neutrons whose kinetic energy was determined by the time-of-flight method. The measured response functions were compared with the results obtained using SCINFUL-QMD code, and the accuracy of the code was experimentally verified up to 800 MeV. This work will contribute to extending the energies measurable with our new radiation dose-monitoring system (DARWIN), which is based on the BC501A scintillator.
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U2 - 10.1080/18811248.2006.9711153
DO - 10.1080/18811248.2006.9711153
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010618363
VL - 43
SP - 714
EP - 719
JO - Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
JF - Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
SN - 0022-3131
IS - 7
ER -