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A Ring Neutron Detector for a Time-of-flight Diffractometer Based on Linear Scintillation Detectors with Silicon Photomultipliers

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A ring neutron detector has been developed for a time-of-flight diffractometer based on linear scintillation detectors. Light is transported over an organic glass light guide with a diffuse reflector. This scheme makes it possible to collect more photons than are collected in detectors based on wavelength-shifting fibers and to use avalanche photodiodes (SiPMs) instead of photomultiplier tubes. Testing confirmed that these detectors could be used as an alternative for widely used proportional neutron counters filled with 3He.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    V. N. Marin, R. A. Sadykov, D. N. Trunov, V. S. Litvin & S. N. Axenov

  2. Institute for High Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow, 108840, Russia

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  3. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    V. S. Litvin

  4. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    V. S. Litvin

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Original Russian Text © V.N. Marin, R.A. Sadykov, D.N. Trunov, V.S. Litvin, S.N. Axenov, 2018, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2018, No. 1, pp. 5–12.

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Marin, V.N., Sadykov, R.A., Trunov, D.N. et al. A Ring Neutron Detector for a Time-of-flight Diffractometer Based on Linear Scintillation Detectors with Silicon Photomultipliers. Instrum Exp Tech 61, 1–8 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441218010074

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