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Three experimental methods are described which hold the most promise for improved energy resolution, time resolution and sensitivity in the detection of solar neutrons on satellites and/or long duration balloon flights. These are: (1) The Neutron Calorimeter, (2) SONTRAC (Solar Neutron Track Chamber), and (3) The Solar Neutron Decay Proton Detector. The characteristics of the three methods as to energy range, energy resolution, time resolution, detection efficiency, and physical properties are delineated. The Introduction gives a brief description of earlier techniques which were used to measure the intensity of high-energy cosmic-ray neutrons at the top of the atmosphere and to search for solar neutrons. The past three decades of detector development has now reached the point where we have the capability of making comprehensive and detailed measurements of solar neutrons on future space missions.

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  1. Physics Dept., Case Western Reserve University, 44106, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

    Glenn M. Frye Jr.

  2. Physics Dept., University of New Hampshire, 03824, Durham, NH, U.S.A.

    Philip P. Dunphy & Edward L. Chupp

  3. Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, 19716, Newark, DE, U.S.A.

    Paul Evenson

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Frye, G.M., Dunphy, P.P., Chupp, E.L. et al. Neutron techniques. Sol Phys 118, 321–346 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148599

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