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A gated liquid-scintillator-based neutron detector for fast-ignitor experiments and down-scattered neutron
C Stoeckl1, M Cruz, V Yu Glebov
1Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA. csto@lle.rochester.edu
Abstract:
The detection of neutrons in fast-ignitor experiments or down-scattered neutrons in inertial fusion experiments is very challenging since it requires the neutron detection system to recover within 10-100 ns from a high background orders of magnitude stronger than the signal of interest. The background is either the hard x-ray emission from short-pulse laser target interactions for the fast-ignitor experiments or the primary neutron signal for the down-scattered neutrons. A liquid-scintillator detector has been developed using a gated photomultiplier that suppresses the background signal and eliminates the afterglow present in conventional plastic scintillators.
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