Equipment for Triple Differential Neutron Cross Section Measurements (Physics)

该设备将用于执行经批准的 探测核状态方程（EOS）的实验， 测量中子的三重微分截面， 等质量原子核的高多重碰撞 质量数和轰击能量的函数。 计算 表明本实验可以较好地探索状态方程 灵敏度和中子集体流的测量 将提供补充信息，塑料球， 带电粒子的流光室测量。 宽 中子能量的动态范围从约20 MeV到近 是每核子动能的三倍 与塑料球测量结果形成鲜明对比， 能量从40到200 MeV/核子。 的能力 在这种宽的动态能量范围内探测中子（和 在许多检测器中同时）补偿减少的 中子探测效率

This equipment will be used to carry out an approved experiment to probe the nuclear equation of state (EOS) by measuring triple-differential cross sections for neutrons from high-multiplicity collisions of equal-mass nuclei as a function of mass number and bombarding energy. Calculations indicate that this experiment can probe the EOS with good sensitivity, and measurement of collective flow of neutrons will provide information complementary to Plastic Ball and Streamer Chamber measurements of charged particles. The wide dynamic range of neutron energies from about 20 MeV to nearly three times the kinetic energy per nucleon of the projectile, is in marked contrast to the Plastic Ball measurements with energies from about 40 to 200 MeV/nucleon. The ability to detect neutrons over this wide dynamic range of energies (and in many detectors simultaneously) compensates for the reduced neutron detection efficiency.