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Measurements of low‐energy ( d,n ) reactions for BNCT
Author(s) -
Colon.,
Beaulieu L.,
Phair L.,
Wozniak G. J.,
Moretto L. G.,
Chu W. T.,
Ludewigt B. A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.598599
Subject(s) - scintillator , neutron , deuterium , nuclear physics , neutron temperature , low energy , nuclear reaction , neutron source , yield (engineering) , radiochemistry , spectral line , physics , materials science , detector , atomic physics , chemistry , optics , astronomy , thermodynamics
Neutron yields and energy spectra have been measured for various deuteron‐induced reactions at low energy. Neutrons of energy > 100 keV emitted in the9 Be ( d , n ) 10 B , 12 C ( d , n ) 13 N, and13 C ( d , n ) 14 N reactions at E d= 1.5 MeV were detected at five angles by means of liquid scintillator detectors. While low‐energy neutrons were observed in all studied reactions, only13 C ( d , n ) 14 N is characterized by a relatively large yield with spectral features potentially interesting for an accelerator‐based neutron source for BNCT.