In:
EPJ Web of Conferences, EDP Sciences, Vol. 239 ( 2020), p. 01024-
Abstract:
The neutron-induced fission cross section of 235 U, a standard at thermal energy and between 0.15 MeV and 200 MeV, plays a crucial role in nuclear technology applications. The long-standing need of improving cross section data above 20 MeV and the lack of experimental data above 200 MeV motivated a new experimental campaign at the n_TOF facility at CERN. The measurement has been performed in 2018 at the experimental area 1 (EAR1), located at 185 m from the neutron-producing target (the experiment is presented by A. Manna et al. in a contribution to this conference). The 235 U(n,f) cross section from 20 MeV up to about 1 GeV has been measured relative to the 1 H(n,n) 1 H reaction, which is considered the primary reference in this energy region. The neutron flux impinging on the 235 U sample (a key quantity for determining the fission events) has been obtained by detecting recoil protons originating from n-p scattering in a C 2 H 4 sample. Two Proton Recoil Telescopes (PRT), consisting of several layers of solid-state detectors and fast plastic scintillators, have been located at proton scattering angles of 25.07° and 20.32°, out of the neutron beam. The PRTs exploit the ΔE-E technique for particle identification, a basic requirement for the rejection of charged particles from neutron-induced reactions in carbon. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations were performed to characterize proton transport through the different slabs of silicon and scintillation detectors, to optimize the experimental set-up and to deduce the efficiency of the whole PRT detector. In this work we compare measured data collected with the PRTs with a full Monte Carlo simulation based on the Geant-4 toolkit.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2100-014X
DOI:
10.1051/epjconf/202023901024
Language:
English
Publisher:
EDP Sciences
Publication Date:
2020
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2595425-8
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