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B J Patil1, S T Chavan, S N Pethe
1Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, India.
Abstract:
The 6MeV LINAC based pulsed thermal neutron source has been designed for bulk materials analysis. The design was optimized by varying different parameters of the target and materials for each region using FLUKA code. The optimized design of thermal neutron source gives flux of 3×10(6)ncm(-2)s(-1) with more than 80% of thermal neutrons and neutron to gamma ratio was 1×10(4)ncm(-2)mR(-1). The results of prototype experiment and simulation are found to be in good agreement with each other.
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