Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Noble-gas-excimer detectors of slow neutrons
- Patent Title (中): 低中子的贵重气体准分子探测器
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Application No.: US13282571Application Date: 2011-10-27
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Publication No.: US08816296B2Publication Date: 2014-08-26
- Inventor: Charles W. Clark , Patrick P. Hughes , Michael Alan Coplan , Alan Keith Thompson , Robert E. Vest
- Applicant: Charles W. Clark , Patrick P. Hughes , Michael Alan Coplan , Alan Keith Thompson , Robert E. Vest
- Applicant Address: US DC Washington
- Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Current Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US DC Washington
- Agency: Witters & Associates
- Agent Steve Witters
- Main IPC: G01T3/00
- IPC: G01T3/00
Abstract:
The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for use in highly sensitive and efficient neutron detection, that includes using trigger reactions to initiate far-ultraviolet (FUV) optical emissions. In some embodiments of the present invention, a method for the detection of slow neutrons includes absorption of a slow neutron with a high neutron capture-cross-section nucleus, decay of the compound nucleus into energetic particles, creation of excimers from the energetic particles reacting with a background gas to form excimers, radiative decay of excimers resulting in emission of FUV radiation, and detection of the FUV radiation using an optical detector.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120104269A1 NOBLE-GAS-EXCIMER DETECTORS OF SLOW NEUTRONS Public/Granted day:2012-05-03
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