LETICIA NEGRÃO PINTO
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Artigo IPEN-doc 24689 Characterization of neutron detectors at the IPEN/MB-01 nuclear reactor2017 - GONNELLI, EDUARDO; PINTO, LETICIA N.; DINIZ, RICARDO; SANTOS, ADIMIR dosA huge Brazilian nuclear project, the Brazilian Multipurpose Research Reactor (RMB), is being carried out and one of the project steps is to verify experimentally the physical quantities related to the operational performance of the new fuel elements. In this context, the aim of this work is to characterize the neutron detectors due to its crucial role during the nuclear reactor criticalization. A series of experiments was performed at the IPEN/MB-01 nuclear reactor in order to characterize a set of new helium-3-filled gas proportional counters. The detectors characterization procedure takes into account the operating voltage curve and the detectors dead time. The Rossi-α method was employed in order to acquire the time difference between a detected neutron pair. The dead time determination through the Rossi-α method is very important to discriminate the reflector effect over the neutron lifetimes in subcritical reactivity levels. Furthermore, the Auto Power Spectral Densities (APSD) for those new detectors were experimentally acquired and those results were compared among some well-known detectors and with theoretical simulation results using the MCNP5 code with the ENDF/B-VII.0 library neutron data.Artigo IPEN-doc 22567 A simple way to overcome the shortage of sup(3)He detectors in the IPEN/MB-01 nuclear reactor2016 - GONNELLI, E.; PINTO, L.N.; LANDIM, H.R.; DINIZ, R.; JEREZ, R.; SANTOS, A. dosIn order to overcome the shortage of 3He detectors for subcritical experiments in the IPEN/MB-01 reactor, some experiments were performed employing less sensitive detectors, such as BF3, and a logic input module, which sums the counts from different detectors. Through microscopic and macroscopic neutron noise technique, it was possible to obtain, respectively, Rossi-α distribution and Auto Power Spectral Densities (APSD) for each detector configuration and various subcritical levels, and the prompt neutron decay constant (α) was extracted through a least squares procedure. In addition, Cross Power Spectral Densities (CPSD) were acquired for different types of detectors and the correlation among those detectors was confirmed. It was also observed that there was no loss of correlation among the neutron pulses, and therefore, the CPSD curves demonstrated the presence of correlated events. The α parameter was used as an indicator for the comparison of the results and for the quality of the experimental data. The obtained values demonstrate that the sum of counts technique does not present loss of information (correlated neutrons) even for different models and types of detectors, suggesting that the technique may be employed in neutron noise measurements for subcritical reactivity.