Measurement Of Neutron Background in Kuo-Sheng Neutrino Laboratory

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2012

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Yıldırım, İhsan Ozan

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Particle physics experiments with low event rates highly depend on background suppression methods. Neutron component of the ambient background radiation is especially problematic since neutrons are difficult to shield directly. TEXONO collaboration has employed a hybrid neutron detector composed of two different scintillating materials to measure the neutron background directly in the Kuo-Sheng Neutrino Laboratory. Detector is operated after calibration and optimization studies and from collected data, neutron flux is obtained using computational methods.

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Nuclear and Particle Physics., Atomic Energy., Radioactivity.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21428

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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İ. O. Yıldırım, “Measurement Of Neutron Background in Kuo-Sheng Neutrino Laboratory,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.