Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements Using a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer

摘要

Accurate simulations of nuclear interactions require accurate nuclear data. This work aims to further develop the method of using a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer coupled with a pulsed neutron source to measure nuclear data, in this case, neutron capture cross sections. In order to further develop this method, simulations were run using the Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport (MCNP) suite of codes to design the detectors and experiments, and some of these experiments were performed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).