New Neutron-based Isotopic
Analytical Methods
An Explorative Study of Applications of Resonance
Capture & Incoherent Scattering

By Raffaella Christine Perego
December 2004
Delft University Press
ISBN: 9040725373
186 pages, Illustrated, 6 ½ x 9 ½"
$79.50 Paper Original

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This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Two novel neutron-based analytical techniques have been treated in this thesis, Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis (NRCA), employing a pulsed neutron source and Neutron Incoherent Scattering (NIS), making use of a cold neutron source. These are used to explore whether the implementation of a pulsed or a cold neutron source at the Interfaculty Reactor Institute (IRI) could be promising investments for the future.

With the NRCA method, developed in collaboration between the Delft University of Technology and the Institute of Reference Materials and Measurements of the Joint Research Centre (JRC-IRMM) in Geel, Belgium, isotopes are identified by the isotopic-specific resonances in the neutron cross section occurring after neutron capture.

Contents include: Part I: Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis, 1. Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis (NRCA), 2. The NRCA technique: experimental details, 3. NRCA optimization, 4. NRCA validation, Part II: Neutron Incoherent Scattering, 5. Neutron Incoherent Scattering (NIS): introduction and applications, 6. NIS and supporting techniques description, 7. NIS on hydrogen in titanium, 8. NIS on hydrating cement pastes.



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