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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
W. C. Sailor, Cris W. Barnes, G. A. Wurden, R. E. Chrien
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 945-948
Fusion Diagnostic and Neutronic Experiment and Analysis | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40276
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A conceptual design for a radiation-hard “pointing” fast neutron ionization chamber that is capable of delivering a 1 MHz countrate of T(D,n) events at ITER is given. The detector will use a ∼1 cm3 volume of CO2 fill gas at 0.1 bar pressure in a ∼500 V/cm electric field. The pulse widths will be ∼10 ns, enabling it to operate in a flux of ∼6×1013 DT n/cm2/sec. A special collimator design is used, giving an estimated angular resolution of 4.5 degrees HWHM.
