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[en] Recent efforts have been made to improve the prompt fission neutron spectrum and nu-bar measurements for Uranium and Plutonium isotopes particularly in the keV region. A system has been designed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) utilizing an array of EJ-301 liquid scintillators as well as lithium glass and plastic scintillators to experimentally determine these values. An array of BaF2 detectors was recently obtained from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to be used in conjunction with the neutron detectors. The system uses a novel gamma tagging method for fission which can offer an improvement over conventional fission chambers due to increased sample mass. A coincidence requirement on the gamma detectors from prompt fission gammas is used as the fission tag for the system as opposed to fission fragments in a conventional fission chamber. The system utilizes pulse digitization using Acqiris 8 bit digitizer boards which allow for gamma/neutron pulse height discrimination on the liquid scintillators during post processing. Additionally, a 252Cf fission chamber was designed and constructed at RPI which allowed for optimization and testing of the system without the need for an external neutron source. The characteristics of the gamma tagging method such as false detection rate and detection efficiency were determined using this fission chamber and verified using MCNP Polimi modeling. Prompt fission neutron spectrum data has been taken using the fission chamber focusing on the minimum detectable neutron energy for each of the various detectors. Plastic scintillators were found to offer a significant improvement over traditional liquid scintillators allowing energy measurements down to 50 keV. Background was also characterized for all detectors and will be discussed.
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OSTIID--1465740; NA0001814; Available from https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465740; DOE Accepted Manuscript full text, or the publishers Best Available Version will be available free of charge after the embargo period
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Nuclear Data Sheets; ISSN 0090-3752;
; v. 119(C); p. 209-212

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ACTINIDE NUCLEI, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BARYONS, CALIFORNIUM ISOTOPES, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, ENERGY RANGE, EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI, FERMIONS, FISSION NEUTRONS, HADRONS, HEAVY NUCLEI, IONIZATION CHAMBERS, ISOTOPES, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, NEUTRON DETECTORS, NEUTRONS, NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS, NUCLEI, NUCLEONS, PARTICLE SOURCES, PHOSPHORS, RADIATION DETECTORS, RADIATION SOURCES, RADIOISOTOPES, SPECTRA, SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES, US AEC, US DOE, US ERDA, US ORGANIZATIONS, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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