Fundamental research with neutrons: Ultracold neutrons, Interferometry
Fast neutron therapy
Neutron capture therapy
Infrastructure
Neutron sources: Research reactor, Spallation, Neutron moderator
Neutron optics: Reflector, Supermirror
Detection
Neutron facilities
America: HFIR, LANSCE, NIST CNR -SNS
Australia: OPAL
Asia: J-PARC, HANARO
Europe: BER II, FRM II, ILL, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, JINR, SINQ
Historic: IPNS, HFBR
Under construction: ESS
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Neutron detection is the effective detection of neutrons entering a well-positioned detector. There are two key aspects to effective neutron detection: hardware and software. Detection hardware refers to the kind of neutron detector used (the most common today is the scintillation detector) and to the electronics used in the detection setup. Further, the hardware setup also defines key experimental parameters, such as source-detector distance, solid angle and detector shielding. Detection software consists of analysis tools that perform tasks such as graphical analysis to measure the number and energies of neutrons striking the detector.
Neutrondetection is the effective detection of neutrons entering a well-positioned detector. There are two key aspects to effective neutron detection:...
The neutrondetection temperature, also called the neutron energy, indicates a free neutron's kinetic energy, usually given in electron volts. The term...
The neutron is a subatomic particle, symbol n or n0 , which has a neutral (not positive or negative) charge, and a mass slightly greater than that of...
is perhaps one of the world's best-known radiation detection instruments. The original detection principle was realized in 1908 at the University of...
A neutron star is a collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. The stars that later collapse into neutron stars have a total mass of between 10 and...
incorporate a neutrondetection technology. The vast majority of all neutron detectors deployed in RPMs to date relies on He-3 tubes surrounded by neutron moderators...
Neutron activation is the process in which neutron radiation induces radioactivity in materials, and occurs when atomic nuclei capture free neutrons, becoming...
fast neutrons. When these fast neutrons collide with hydrogen nuclei present in the soil being studied, they lose much of their energy. The detection of...
include water and shock resistance, large gamma energy range, detection of gamma and neutron sources, automatic system calibration, and temperature stabilization...
search for neutron signatures. However, a global supply shortage of He-3 has led to the search for other technologies for neutrondetection. Industrial...
A neutron star merger is the stellar collision of neutron stars. When two neutron stars fall into mutual orbit, they gradually spiral inward due to gravitational...
A neutron source is any device that emits neutrons, irrespective of the mechanism used to produce the neutrons. Neutron sources are used in physics, engineering...
Neutron radiation is a form of ionizing radiation that presents as free neutrons. Typical phenomena are nuclear fission or nuclear fusion causing the release...
Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is a nuclear process used for determining the concentrations of elements in many materials. NAA allows discrete sampling...
Neutron capture is a nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus and one or more neutrons collide and merge to form a heavier nucleus. Since neutrons...
also be detected directly using nuclear quadrupole resonance and neutron probes. Detection and removal of landmines is a dangerous activity, and personal...
The neutron flux is a scalar quantity used in nuclear physics and nuclear reactor physics. It is the total distance travelled by all free neutrons per...
engineering, a neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons, ideally without capturing any, leaving them as thermal neutrons with only...
increase the neutrondetection efficiency of the scintillation counter itself (since 10B has a high interaction cross section with thermal neutrons). Newer...
repeat the experiment using more sophisticated neutrondetection equipment. They reported that the neutron release was consistent with random coincidence...
Kearfott, K. J. (2014). "A review of conventional explosives detection using active neutron interrogation". Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry...
the long cycle life it enables. The solid is used as a phosphor for neutrondetection. It is also used, in a complex with Iodine, in the electrolyte of...
Neutron diffraction or elastic neutron scattering is the application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure...
Neutron scattering, the irregular dispersal of free neutrons by matter, can refer to either the naturally occurring physical process itself or to the man-made...
engineering, a prompt neutron is a neutron immediately emitted (neutron emission) by a nuclear fission event, as opposed to a delayed neutron decay which can...
produced by the last moments of the inspiral process of a binary pair of neutron stars, ending with their merger. It is the first GW observation that has...