A Device for Detecting Concealed Explosives

Teryokhin, V. A.; Chernukhin, Yu. I.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8466-9_11

V. A. Teryokhin³ &
Yu. I. Chernukhin³

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The paper discusses a device which increases sensitivity to and improves detection reliability of concealed explosives, including cases of humanitarian de-mining. The device consists of an emitter of thermal neutrons and high-effective large-aperture heterogeneous scintillation detector (HSD) of hard gamma-rays. The detector is a set of gamma-radiation converting layers and adjacent scintillating layers, which detect elections and positrons produced in the converting layers. Layer thicknesses are selected so that to allow charged particles generated from gamma-quanta in the converting layers to be detected in two or more scintillating layers. Each scintillating layer and all of them as a whole are connected to the data processing system.

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Abbreviations

HE:: high explosive
HSD:: heterogeneous scintillation detector
EXPLODET:: EXPLOsive DETection
PMT:: photomultiplier

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Russian Federal Nuclear Center - All-Russia Research Institute of Technical Physics, Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk area, 456770, Russia
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Fraunhofer-Institute for Chemical Technology, Pfinztal, Germany
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V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Andrey Kuznetsov

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Teryokhin, V.A., Chernukhin, Y.I. (2008). A Device for Detecting Concealed Explosives. In: Schubert, H., Kuznetsov, A. (eds) Detection of Liquid Explosives and Flammable Agents in Connection with Terrorism. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8466-9_11

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