Open AccessNICE - Neutron Induced Charged particle Emission
Author(s) -
K. Al-Khasawneh,
Erik Borris,
B. Bruückner,
Κ. Eberhardt,
P. Erbacher,
Stefan Fiebiger,
R. Gernhäauser,
K. Göobel,
T. Heftrich,
T. Kisselbach,
D. Kurtulgil,
C. Langer,
Markus Reich,
R. Reifarth,
Dennis Renisch,
B. Thomas,
M. Volknandt,
M. Weigand
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1668/1/012021
Subject(s) - scintillator , detector , nuclear physics , physics , neutron detection , cross section (physics) , charged particle , neutron , particle (ecology) , nice , particle identification , optics , computer science , ion , oceanography , programming language , geology , quantum mechanics
A new detector setup (NICE-detector) based on an organic plastic scintillator is presented. It will be used during experiments measuring neutron-induced reactions with a charged particle in the exit channel. The proposed design was tested at the Goethe University Frankfurt. One of the test cases was the capture cross-section of 209 Bi at different astrophysically important energies, including thermal capture cross-section and resonance integral. This research presents the performance of the detector setup, as well as preliminary results for the calculated cross-sections. The preliminary results demonstrate that the newly developed NICE-detector can be used to determine capture cross-sections with sufficient accuracy, and might be adopted in the future as an alternative for charged particle measurements in different nuclear and astrophysical applications.