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DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.014
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Neutron detection; (10)Boron; Neutron converter; Position sensitive; (3)Helium alternative; ASIC; Spin Echo
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- German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) [05K10VHA]
We report on the CASCADE project - a detection system, which has been designed for the purposes of neutron Spin Echo spectroscopy and which is continuously further developed and adapted to various applications. It features 2D spatially resolved detection of thermal neutrons at high rates. The CASCADE detector is composed of a stack of solid B-10 coated Gas Electron Multiplier foils, which serve both as a neutron converter and as an amplifier for the primary ionization deposited in the standard counting gas environment. This multi-layer setup efficiently increases the detection efficiency and by extracting the signal of the charge traversing the stack the conversion layer can be identified allowing a precise determination of the time-of-flight. The spatial resolution is found by optical contrast determination to be sigma = (1.39 +/- 0.05) mm and by divergence corrected aperture measurements sigma = (1.454 +/- 0.007) mm, which is in agreement with the simulated detector model. Furthermore this enabled to investigate and describe the non-Gaussian resolution function. At the HEiDi diffractometer the absolute detection efficiency has been studied. At 0.6 angstrom for the 6 layer detector, which is currently part of the RESEDA spectrometer, an efficiency of 7.8% has been measured, which by means of Monte Carlo simulations translates to (21.0 +/- 1.5)% for thermal neutrons at 1.8 angstrom and (46.9 +/- 3.3)% at 5.4 angstrom. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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