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Publications in Scientific Journals:

V. Babiano-Suarez, J. Lerendegui-Marco, J. Balibrea-Correa, M. Bacak, H. Leeb, -. n_TOF Collaboration et al.:
"Imaging neutron capture cross sections: i-TED proof-of-concept and future prospects based on Machine-Learning techniques";
European Physical Journal A, 57 (2021), 197; 1 - 17.



English abstract:
i-TED is an innovative detection system which exploits Compton imaging techniques to achieve a superior signal-to-background ratio in (n,γ) cross-section measurements using time-of-flight technique. This work presents the first experimental validation of the i-TED apparatus for high-resolution time-of-flight experiments and demonstrates for the first time the concept proposed for background rejection. To this aim, the 197Au(n,γ) and 56Fe(n,γ) reactions were studied at CERN n_TOF using an i-TED demonstrator based on three position-sensitive detectors. Two C6D6 detectors were also used to benchmark the performance of i-TED. The i-TED prototype built for this study shows a factor of ∼3 higher detection sensitivity than state-of-the-art C6D6 detectors in the 10 keV neutron-energy region of astrophysical interest. This paper explores also the perspectives of further enhancement in performance attainable with the final i-TED array consisting of twenty position-sensitive detectors and new analysis methodologies based on Machine-Learning techniques.


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00507-7


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