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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1981
Stanley J Friesenhahn, Poway, CA (US);
IRT Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A large area neutron proportional counter is constructed utilizing a large sealed metal box. The interior walls of the box are coated with .sup.6 Li enriched metal. A multicelled proportional counter structure within the internal space defined by the box is fabricated using a hydrogenous plastic. The interior of the box is filled with a counting gas. Wires running through the box, and insulated therefrom, are raised to a suitably high potential so that the counting gas functions in the proportional region to amplify and collect charge from ionizing events in the gas, the wires acting as a anodes and the box as cathode. The cell dimensions are chosen so that .sup.6 Li(n,.alpha.).sup.3 H reaction products will, with high probability, stop in the gas. Compton electrons, on the other hand, will mostly be stopped in the walls or in the hydrogenous plastic cell boundaries. An array of such counters may be utilized for detection of neutron emitting materials passing through a portal.