Recent progress in fast-ion diagnostics for magnetically confined plasmas

D Moseev, M Salewski, M Garcia-Muñoz… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - Springer
On the road to a fusion reactor, a thorough control of the fast-ion distribution plays a crucial
role. Fusion-born α α-particles are, indeed, a necessary ingredient of self-sustained burning …

Conceptual design of the radial gamma ray spectrometers system for α particle and runaway electron measurements at ITER

M Nocente, M Tardocchi, R Barnsley, L Bertalot… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We here present the principles and main physics capabilities behind the design of the radial
gamma ray spectrometers (RGRS) system for alpha particle and runaway electron …

The GRIFFIN data acquisition system

AB Garnsworthy, CJ Pearson, D Bishop, B Shaw… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Gamma-Ray Infrastructure For Fundamental Investigations of Nuclei, GRIFFIN, is a
new experimental facility for radioactive decay studies at the TRIUMF-ISAC laboratory. This …

High resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy at high count rates with a prototype high purity germanium detector

RJ Cooper, M Amman, K Vetter - … and Methods in Physics Research Section …, 2018 - Elsevier
High-resolution gamma-ray spectrometers are required for applications in nuclear
safeguards, emergency response, and fundamental nuclear physics. To overcome one of …

A prototype High Purity Germanium detector for high resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy at high count rates

RJ Cooper, M Amman, PN Luke, K Vetter - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Where energy resolution is paramount, High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors continue
to provide the optimum solution for gamma-ray detection and spectroscopy. Conventional …

Evaluation of high-energy delayed gamma-ray spectra dependence on interrogation timing patterns

DC Rodriguez, T Bogucarska, M Koizumi… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security of
the Japan Atomic Energy Agency is developing delayed gamma-ray spectroscopy (DGS) for …

Model design of a compact delayed gamma-ray moderator system using 252Cf for safeguards verification measurements

DC Rodriguez, F Rossi, T Takahashi, M Seya… - Applied Radiation and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Delayed gamma-ray spectroscopy (DGS) is an active-interrogation nondestructive assay
technique that can be used to determine the composition of a nuclear material sample by …

LiF/ZnS neutron multiplicity counter

S Stave, M Bliss, R Kouzes, A Lintereur… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The availability of 3 He in recent years is becoming restricted with an order of magnitude
price increase for this material. Alternatives to the use of 3 He for the detection of thermal …

[PDF][PDF] Spent nuclear fuel Measurements

JE Fast, JW Chenault, BD Glasgow, DC Rodriguez… - 2014 - osti.gov
An unsolved longstanding challenge to expand the Safeguards regime is to assay spent
nuclear fuel (SNF) for its plutonium content. Regardless of the process used to assay the …

Non-parametric decompounding of pulse pile-up under gaussian noise with finite data sets

C Mclean, M Pauley, JH Manton - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel estimator is proposed for estimating the energy distribution of photons incident upon
a detector in X-ray spectroscopic systems. It is specifically designed for count-rate regimes …