Baker, C A, Green, K, van der Grinten, M G D, Iaydjiev, P S, Ivanov, S N, Al-Ayoubi, S, Harris, Philip G, Pendlebury, J M, Shiers, D B and Geltenbort, P (2002) Development of solid-state silicon devices as ultra cold neutron detectors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 487 (3). pp. 511-520. ISSN 0168-9002

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Abstract

We present a study aimed at developing and optimising methods for ultra-cold neutron (UCN) detection using solid-state silicon detectors. For this we investigated the characteristics of neutron to charged particle converters (6Li, 10B) and compared different deposition techniques. We find that a deposition of 600 μg/cm2 of 6LiF is required to ensure maximum UCN detection efficiency using 6Li as converter. The UCN detectors that we have developed are now fully operational as a flux monitor and as a UCN spectrum analyser in the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Philip Harris
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 19:23
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2012 11:02
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/20349

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