An Apparatus for the Direct Determination of Slow Neutron Velocity Distributions

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Abstract
Apparatus is described by means of which a modulated source of slow neutrons is produced and their intensity determined as a function of time. The deuteron beam of a high voltage tube is deflected by a modulated electrostatic field in such a way as to produce square bursts of fast neutrons of any desired length. After being slowed by hydrogenous material a selected beam of neutrons falls on a suitable detector at a measured distance from the source. Pulses from the detector are impressed on an oscilloscope screen, together with a sharply defined time scale and photographic records made. The time analysis of the neutron distribution is then made by a numerical count of the neutron pulses as a function of the time interval in which they occur.

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