Neutron Detectors and Related Applications – NDRA 2016

29 Jun 2016, 08:00 → 2 Jul 2016, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy

The aim of the school is to illustrate principles, methodologies and most recent applications of neutron detection technologies. In particular, the school will tackle various arguments that span from neutron interaction principles, materials for neutrons detectors, neutron sources, Monte Carlo simulation codes, up to applications with neutrons. The school is addressed to PhD students, Post-Docs and young researchers with backgrounds in Engineering and Physics.

Minutes NDRA-Participants_email.pdf

Slides Bus_route_for_dinner.pdf

Wednesday, 29 June

09:00 Opening

1 Neutron Interaction with Matter: Basics for Neutron Detection (1)

Speaker: Prof. Jason Hayward (University of Tennessee and ORNL)

Slides Hayward.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

2 Neutron Interaction with Matter: Basics for Neutron Detection (2)

Speaker: Prof. Jason Hayward (University of Tennessee and ORNL)

3 Organic and inorganic scintillators for Neutron Detection (1)

Speaker: Prof. Marek Moszynski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

Slides Moszynski.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

4 Organic and inorganic scintillators for Neutron Detection (2)

Speaker: Prof. Marek Moszynski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

5 Production and testing of commercial scintillators

Speaker: Dr Paul Schotanus (Scionix-Nederlands)

Slides Schotanus.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

Thursday, 30 June

6 Design of Scintillator Detectors for neutrons

Speaker: Prof. Ralf Engels (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

Slides Engels.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

7 Monte Carlo Principles for Neutron Experiments

Speaker: Dr Alfredo Ferrari (CERN)

Slides Ferrari.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

8 Principles of Semiconductor Detectors

Speaker: Dr Gregor Kramberger (Jozef Stefan Institute)

Slides Kramberger.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

Friday, 1 July

9 Gas Detectors for Neutrons

Speaker: Dr Bruno Guerard (Institute Laue-Langevin, France)

Slides GUERARD.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

10 Design and Analysis in Neutron Resonance Experiments

Speaker: Dr Peter Schillebeeckx (EC-JRC-IRMM, Belgium)

Slides SCHILLEBEECKX.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

11 Neutron Sources

Speaker: Prof. Richard Hall-Wilton (European Spallation Source, Lund, Sweden)

Slides RJHW_Sources.pdf

12 Detectors for Spallation Sources

Speaker: Prof. Richard Hall-Wilton (European Spallation Source, Lund, Sweden)

Slides RJHWD_Detectors_Spallation.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

13 Recent results at nTOF: 7Be(n,a) cross section measurements for the fixing of the problem of cosmological Lithium

Speaker: Dr Paolo Finocchiaro (INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy)

Slides FINOCCHIARO.pdf

POSTER SESSION

Conveners: Prof. Alberto Quaranta (University of Trento and TIFPA INFN, Trento, Italy), Prof. Gian-Franco Dalla Betta (TIFP)

14 Book of Abstracts

Speaker: Prof. Gian-Franco Dalla Betta (TIFP)

Paper BOA.pdf

Slides NDRA2016_B_Maqabuka_abstract.pdf

20:30 Social Dinner

Ristorante al Forte Alto
Via Castel Penede 26- 38060 Nago (TN)
www.alfortealto.it

Saturday, 2 July

15 Production and detection of thermal neutrons

Speaker: Prof. Stanislav Pospisil (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Slides Pospisil_Neutrons.pdf

16 Detectors for neutron imaging

Speaker: Prof. Stanislav Pospisil (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Slides Pospisil_Imaging.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

17 Neutron radiobiology: medicine and space

Speaker: Prof. Marco Durante (TIFP)

Slides DURANTE.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

18 Neutron measurements in fusion research

Speaker: Dr Marco Tardocchi (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma "Piero Caldirola",CNR)

Slides TARDOCCHI.pdf

16:00 Closing