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Efficiency determination of resistive plate chambers for fast quasi-monoenergetic neutrons

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Composite detectors made of stainless-steel converters and multigap resistive plate chambers have been irradiated with quasi-monoenergetic neutrons with a peak energy of 175 MeV. The neutron detection efficiency has been determined using two different methods. The data are in agreement with the output of Monte Carlo simulations. The simulations are then extended to study the response of a hypothetical array made of these detectors to energetic neutrons from a radioactive ion beam experiment.

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  1. O. Nusair

    Present address: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

    M. Röder, Z. Elekes, D. Bemmerer, T. E. Cowan, M. Kempe, M. Sobiella, D. Stach, A. Wagner & D. Yakorev

  2. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    M. Röder, T. E. Cowan, M. Kempe, D. Yakorev & K. Zuber

  3. MTA ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary

    Z. Elekes

  4. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany

    T. Aumann, K. Boretzky, C. Caesar, J. Hehner, M. Heil, V. Maroussov & O. Nusair

  5. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    T. Aumann & C. Caesar

  6. Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

    V. Maroussov & A. Zilges

  7. Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan

    O. Nusair

  8. The Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    A. V. Prokofiev

  9. Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    R. Reifarth

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for the R3B Collaboration., Röder, M., Elekes, Z. et al. Efficiency determination of resistive plate chambers for fast quasi-monoenergetic neutrons. Eur. Phys. J. A 50, 112 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2014-14112-0

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