Fast neutron detection under intense -ray fields with novel nuclear emulsion technique

新型原子核乾板を用いた高線バックグラウンド下での選択的高速中性子検出

石原 康平*; 高木 恵輔*; 湊 春奈*; 河原林 順*; 富田 英生*; 前田 茂貴   ; 中 竜大*; 森島 邦博*; 中野 敏行*; 中村 光廣*; 井口 哲夫*

Ishihara, Kohei*; Takagi, Keisuke*; Minato, Haruna*; Kawarabayashi, Jun*; Tomita, Hideki*; Maeda, Shigetaka; Naka, Tatsuhiro*; Morishima, Kunihiro*; Nakano, Toshiyuki*; Nakamura, Mitsuhiro*; Iguchi, Tetsuo*

原子核乾板を用いた高線下での中性子測定に向け、新規に開発を進めている原子核乾板について線に対する乾板応答シミュレーション結果と実験結果との比較により、潜像が現像されるには付与エネルギーに閾値が存在する可能性が示唆され、線に対する感度を低減するためにAgBr結晶粒径微細化が有用であることがわかった。新型乾板の中性子と線の感度を比較し、/n比8桁で測定できる可能性を得た。

In order to measure the neutron under a condition of high intensity of -ray background, we made new nuclear emulsion based on non-sensitized OPERA emulsion which had small AgBr grain size (AgBr grain size of 60, 90 and 160 nm). The sensitivity of this new emulsion, which was a correlation between stopping power and grain density, was estimated experimentally by irradiating neutrons with several energies. We also simulated the response to -ray induced electrons and compared with some experimental results by using Co source. The results showed that there might be a threshold energy deposited in one AgBr grain under which it was impossible to develop. We estimated efficiency to the -ray and the neutron with this obtained response of the new emulsion.