Atomic Number and Gamma-ray Measurements from Neutron-induced Fission at the ILL and n_ToF

Abstract

The STEFF spectrometer was used at the Neutron Time-of-Flight facility (n_ToF) at CERN in 2016 to perform a 30-day long experimental campaign of measurements of fission fragments and gamma rays produced in 235U fission for a wide range of incident neutron energies. A pipeline for reading, correlating and database deposition of the experimental data from this experimental campaign as well as for future STEFF campaigns at n_ToF has been constructed. The pipeline resulted in 70-fold data size reduction to an experimental database that can be fully processed in ~7 hours. The collected gamma-ray data acquired using NaI and LaBr3 detectors have been analyzed in the

Date of Award	31 Dec 2020
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	The University of Manchester
Supervisor	Gavin Smith (Supervisor) & Tobias Wright (Supervisor)