Quantitative epithermal neutron tomography with compact pulsed neutron source

Abstract

Neutron resonance absorption spectroscopy (N-RAS) with a pulsed neutron source can distinguish the dynamics of individual nuclides which have neutron resonance peaks on epithermal neutron region. Because some of the resonance absorption cross sections have very large values, N-RAS could match the small neutron pulse source by its high sensitivity. The analyzed spectra information of nuclide presence and its effective temperature can be reconstructed as distributions over the object cross-section using computer tomography (CT). In this study the projected nuclide densities were obtained from the resonance absorption equation fitting with the series of obtained spectra. Then, we reconstructed the quantitative nuclide density tomogram using the CT technique about them.