Measurement of fast neutron flux during PIGE experiment

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1 Department of Physics, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

2 Physics and Accelerators Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to determine the fast neutrons flux incident upon the HPGe detector during the BN thick target gamma-ray yield measurements. These measurements were conducted using the deuteron beam of 0.6, 0.8, 1 and 1.2 MeV. In this work, we measured the fast neutrons flux using the 596 keV gamma peak originating from the 74Ge(n,nγ)74Ge and 73Ge(n,γ)74Ge reactions. The contributions of the capture and inelastic scattering reaction over the 596 keV gamma peak yield were measured. The advantage of the method is that no additional equipment is required and the flux of fast neutrons is measured online using the collected gamma spectrum.

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