Neutron leakage spectra from PB-LI sphere with central 252CF- and 14 MEV-neutron sources and verification of evaluated neutron data

4/04/2015 2015 - #01 Physics in nuclear power engineering

Blokhin A.I. Zhuravlev B.V. Talalaev V.A. Sipachev I.V.

https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2015.1.18

The leakage neutron spectra from Pb83Li17 sphere with 252Cf neutron source at its center have been measured by the time-of-flight method from 200 keV up to 10 MeV. Outer radius of sphere was 200 mm, inner – 60 mm. The measurements was performed with use of a specially designed fast ionization chamber, supplied the stop pulses for the time-of-flight technique as well as total number of 252Cf disintegrations during the experiment. The neutrons leaking from the outer surface of a sphere were detected with a scintillation counter composed of a paraterphenyl crystal of 5 cm in diameter and 5 cm long and FEU-143 photomultiplier tube. Before the measurements of leakage neutron spectrum from the same Pb-Li sphere were performed with 14 MeV neutron source using the same time-of-flight facility [1]. The measured data were compared with the MCNP-4 Monte-Carlo code calculations with nuclear data processed from the ENDF/B-VII.1 and BROND-3 libraries.

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Link for citing the article: Blokhin A.I., Zhuravlev B.V., Talalaev V.A., Sipachev I.V. Neutron leakage spectra from PB-LI sphere with central 252CF- and 14 MEV-neutron sources and verification of evaluated neutron data. Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika. 2015, no. 1, pp. 157-162; DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2015.1.18 (in Russian).