EXPERIMENTAL TEMPERATURE-MEASUREMENTS FOR THE ENERGY AMPLIFIER TEST

Authors
CALERO J CENNINI P GALLEGO E GALVEZ J TABARES LG GONZALEZ E JAREN J LOPEZ C LORENTE A MARTINEZ JM OROPESA J RUBBIA C RUBIO JA SALDANA F TAMARIT J VIEIRA S
Citation
J. Calero et al., EXPERIMENTAL TEMPERATURE-MEASUREMENTS FOR THE ENERGY AMPLIFIER TEST, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 376(1), 1996, pp. 89-103
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
376
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
89 - 103
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1996)376:1<89:ETFTEA>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
A uranium thermometer has been designed and built in order to make loc al power measurements in the First Energy Amplifier Test (FEAT). Due t o the experimental conditions power measurements of tens to hundreds o f nW were required, implying a sensitivity in the temperature change m easurements of the order of 1 mK. A uranium thermometer accurate enoug h to match that sensitivity has been built. The thermometer is able to determine the absolute energetic gain obtained in a tiny subcritical uranium assembly exposed to a proton beam of kinetic energies between 600 MeV and 2.75 GeV. In addition, the thermometer measurements have p rovided information about the spatial power distribution and the shape of the neutron spallation cascade.