PT Journal
AU Garcia, AR
   Martinez, T
   Cano-Ott, D
   Castilla, J
   Guerrero, C
   Marin, J
   Martinez, G
   Mendoza, E
   Ovejero, MC
   Reillo, EM
   Santos, C
   Tera, FJ
   Villamarin, D
   Nolte, R
   Agramunt, J
   Algora, A
   Tain, JL
   Banerjee, K
   Bhattacharya, C
   Pentilla, H
   Rinta-Antila, S
   Gorelov, D
TI MONSTER: a time of flight spectrometer for beta-delayed neutron emission measurements
SO Journal of Instrumentation
JI J. Instrum.
PY 2012
BP C05012 - 12pp
VL 7
DI 10.1088/1748-0221/7/05/C05012
LA English
DE Scintillators; scintillation and light emission processes (solid; gas and liquid scintillators); Instrumentation and methods for time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy; Neutron detectors (cold; thermal; fast neutrons)
AB The knowledge of the beta-decay properties of nuclei contributes decisively to our understanding of nuclear phenomena: the beta-delayed neutron emission of neutron rich nuclei plays an important role in the nucleosynthesis r-process and constitutes a probe for nuclear structure of very neutron rich nuclei providing information about the high energy part of the full beta strength (S-beta) function. In addition, beta-delayed neutrons are essential for the control and safety of nuclear reactors. In order to determine the neutron energy spectra and emission probabilities from neutron precursors a MOdular Neutron time-of-flight SpectromeTER (MONSTER) has been proposed for the DESPEC experiment at the future FAIR facility. The design of MONSTER and status of its construction are reported in this work.
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