Abstract

The slow positron yield has been measured for various tungsten (W) moderator samples from a 22Na radioactive source. Multi-folded W mesh, W(1 0 0) single crystal foil and W polycrystalline foil samples have been investigated. It is found that the fast to slow conversion efficiency of the W mesh moderator depends on: (1) the annealing pretreatments, (2) the chemical etching duration and (3) the number of the folding layers. With the raw W mesh material having a wire diameter of 20 μm and transmission efficiency of 92.5%, an optimal efficiency of 1.2 × 10 −3 was achieved with 5 min etching duration and a folding number of 12 layers.

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