Stochastic modeling of a neutron imaging center at the Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07172v4
• Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:24:39 GMT
• Title: Stochastic modeling of a neutron imaging center at the Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor
• Authors: Luiz P. de Oliveira, Alexandre P.S. Souza, Frederico A. Genezini and Adimir dos Santos
• Abstract summary: IEA-R1 is over 60 years old and the future of neutron science in Brazil, including imaging, will be expanded to a new facility called the Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor (RMB) Inspired by recent author's works, we model the Neinei instrument through Monte Carlo simulations. The results are compared to data from the Neutra (PSI), Antares (FRM II), BT2 (NIST) and DINGO (OPAL) instruments.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neutron imaging is a non-destructive technique for analyzing a wide class of samples, such as archaeological or industrial material structures. In recent decades, technological advances have had a great impact on the neutron imaging technique, which has meant an evolution from simple radiographs using films (2D) to modern tomography systems with digital processing (3D). The 5 MW research nuclear reactor IEA-R1, which is located at the Instituto de Pesquisas Energ\'eticas e Nucleares (IPEN) in Brazil, possesses a neutron imaging instrument with $1.0 \times 10^{6}$ $n/cm^{2}s$ in the sample position. IEA-R1 is over 60 years old and the future of neutron science in Brazil, including imaging, will be expanded to a new facility called the Brazilian Multipurpose Reactor (RMB, Portuguese acronym), which will be built soon. The new reactor will house a suite of instruments at the Neutron National Laboratory, including the neutron imaging facility, viz., Neinei. Inspired by recent author's works, we model the Neinei instrument through stochastic Monte Carlo simulations. We investigate the sensitivity of the neutron imaging technique parameter ($L/D$ ratio) with the neutron flux, and the results are compared to data from the Neutra (PSI), Antares (FRM II), BT2 (NIST) and DINGO (OPAL) instruments. The results are promising and provide avenues for future improvements.

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