scholarly journals A Neutron Detector with Submicron Spatial Resolution using Fine-grained Nuclear Emulsion

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 224-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Naganawa ◽  
S. Awano ◽  
M. Hino ◽  
M. Hirose ◽  
K. Hirota ◽  
...  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naotaka Naganawa ◽  
Shogo Awano ◽  
Masahiro Hino ◽  
Masanori Hirose ◽  
Katsuya Hirota ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Katsuya Hirota ◽  
Tomoko Ariga ◽  
Masahiro Hino ◽  
Go Ichikawa ◽  
Shinsuke Kawasaki ◽  
...  

A neutron detector using a fine-grained nuclear emulsion has a sub-micron spatial resolution and thus has potential to be applied as high-resolution neutron imaging. In this paper, we present two approaches to applying the emulsion detectors for neutron imaging. One is using a track analysis to derive the reaction points for high resolution. From an image obtained with a 9 μm pitch Gd grating with cold neutrons, periodic peak with a standard deviation of 1.3 μm was observed. The other is an approach without a track analysis for high-density irradiation. An internal structure of a crystal oscillator chip, with a scale of approximately 30 μm, was able to be observed after an image analysis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Muneem ◽  
Junya Yoshida ◽  
Hiroyuki Ekawa ◽  
Masahiro Hino ◽  
Katsuya Hirota ◽  
...  

Abstract Neutron imaging is a non-destructive inspection technique with a wide range of potential applications. One of the key technical interests concerning neutron imaging is to achieve micrometer-scale spatial resolution. However, developing a neutron detector with a high spatial resolution is a challenging task. Recent efforts are focused on achieving this milestone or even submicrometer spatial resolution. Herein, we introduce our technique for neutron imaging using a fine-grained nuclear emulsion and evaluate the spatial resolution. We used the fine-grained nuclear emulsion with a gadolinium-based Siemens star test pattern and a grating with a periodic structure of 9 μm. The deduced value of the spatial resolution is less than 1 μm using the developed technique. To the best of our knowledge, the submicrometer spatial resolution that we achieved using our method is the best among all reported neutron imaging devices.


2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (12) ◽  
pp. 1686-1689
Author(s):  
S. Kh. Karaevsky ◽  
S. I. Potashev ◽  
A. I. Drachev ◽  
Yu. M. Burmistrov

1976 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Betti ◽  
A. Del Guerra ◽  
A. Giazotto ◽  
M.A. Giorgi ◽  
A. Stefanini ◽  
...  

It is unnecessary to stress the many significant contributions made during the past 20 years to nuclear and high-energy physics by means of the nuclear emulsion technique. One needs only to recall the new particles and decay modes that have been first observed with it. With the development of other powerful techniques, however, such as the spark-chamber and bubble-chamber, readily adaptable to automatic methods of analysis and data handling, nuclear emulsion has inevitably tended to fall into the position of a supplementary method. Nevertheless, there are still important experiments for which it is the most convenient, indeed in some cases the only, technique available, and this paper will discuss such experiments, either recently carried out or proposed for the future, using beams of particles from high-energy accelerators. Nuclear emulsion possesses one most significant advantage over all other tech­niques, namely, the extraordinarily high spatial resolution of which it is capable. Other techniques can resolve events separated by tenths of millimetres. Nuclear emulsion can resolve events separated by tenths of micrometres. This high spatial resolution has made possible the measurement of the lifetime of the π 0 -meson (ca.10 -16 s) and is the basis of our confidence that there are no other commonly occurring unstable particles with lifetimes in the range 10 -11 to 10 -16 s. Most of the experiments described in this paper are particularly suited to the nuclear emulsion technique because they make use of this characteristic feature.


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