• DOI:10.1109/TNS.2004.829651
Corpus ID: 62773581

Neutron detection with mercuric iodide

@article{Bell2003NeutronDW,
  title={Neutron detection with mercuric iodide},
  author={Z. Bell and K. Pohl and L. van den Berg},
  journal={2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. Conference Record (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37515)},
  year={2003},
  volume={5},
  pages={3537-3540 Vol.5}
}

• Z. Bell, K. Pohl, L. van den Berg
• Published 2003
• Materials Science
• 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. Conference Record (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37515)

Mercuric iodide is a high-density, high-Z semiconducting material useful for gamma ray detection. This makes it convertible to a thermal neutron detector by covering it with a boron-rich material and detecting the 478 keV gamma rays resulting from the /sup 10/B(n,/spl alpha/)/sup 7/Li* reaction. However, the 374 barn thermal capture cross section of /sup nat/Hg, makes the detector itself an attractive absorber, and this has been exploited previously. Since previous work indicates that there are… Expand

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