The EURITRACK project: development of a tagged neutron inspection system for cargo containers

Bertrand Perot; Gregory Perret; Alain Mariani; Jean-Luc Ma; Jean-Louis Szabo; Emmanuel Mercier; Guillaume Sannie; Giuseppe Viesti; Giancarlo Nebbia; Silvia Pesente; Marcello Lunardon; Paola Formisano; Sandra Moretto; Daniela Fabris; Aldo Zenoni; Germano Bonomi; Antonietta Donzella; Andrea Fontana; Gaia Boghen; Vladivoj Valkovic; Darovin Sudac; Marek Moszynski; Tadeusz Batsch; Michal Gierlik; Dariusz Wolski; Wlodzimierz Klamra; Patrick Isaksson; Philippe Le Tourneur; Miguel Lhuissier; Annamaria Colonna; Carlo Tintori; Paolo Peerani; Vitor Sequeira; Martino Salvato

doi:10.1117/12.665380

24 May 2006 The EURITRACK project: development of a tagged neutron inspection system for cargo containers

Bertrand Perot, Gregory Perret, Alain Mariani, Jean-Luc Ma, Jean-Louis Szabo, Emmanuel Mercier, Guillaume Sannie, Giuseppe Viesti, Giancarlo Nebbia, Silvia Pesente, Marcello Lunardon, Paola Formisano, Sandra Moretto, Daniela Fabris, Aldo Zenoni, Germano Bonomi, Antonietta Donzella, Andrea Fontana, Gaia Boghen, Vladivoj Valkovic, Darovin Sudac, Marek Moszynski, Tadeusz Batsch, Michal Gierlik, Dariusz Wolski, Wlodzimierz Klamra, Patrick Isaksson, Philippe Le Tourneur, Miguel Lhuissier, Annamaria Colonna, Carlo Tintori, Paolo Peerani, Vitor Sequeira, Martino Salvato

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Proceedings Volume 6213, Non-Intrusive Inspection Technologies; 621305 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.665380
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2006, Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

Abstract

The EURopean Illicit TRAfficing Countermeasures Kit project is part of the 6th European Union Framework Program, and aims at developing a neutron inspection system for detecting threat materials (explosives, drugs, etc.) in cargo containers. Neutron interaction in the container produces specific gamma-rays used to determine the chemical composition of the inspected material. An associated particle sealed tube neutron generator is developed to allow precise location of the interaction point by direction and time-of-flight measurements of the neutrons tagged by alpha-particles. The EURITRACK project consists in developing: a transportable deuterium-tritium neutron generator including a position sensitive alpha detector (8×8 matrix of YAP:Ce crystals coupled to a multi-anode photomultiplier), fast neutron and gamma-ray detectors, front-end electronics to perform coincidence and spectroscopic measurements, and an integrated software which manages neutron generator and detectors positioning, data acquisition and analysis. Hardware components have been developed and tested by the consortium partners. Current status of this work and provisional performances of the system assessed by Monte Carlo calculations are presented.

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Bertrand Perot, Gregory Perret, Alain Mariani, Jean-Luc Ma, Jean-Louis Szabo, Emmanuel Mercier, Guillaume Sannie, Giuseppe Viesti, Giancarlo Nebbia, Silvia Pesente, Marcello Lunardon, Paola Formisano, Sandra Moretto, Daniela Fabris, Aldo Zenoni, Germano Bonomi, Antonietta Donzella, Andrea Fontana, Gaia Boghen, Vladivoj Valkovic, Darovin Sudac, Marek Moszynski, Tadeusz Batsch, Michal Gierlik, Dariusz Wolski, Wlodzimierz Klamra, Patrick Isaksson, Philippe Le Tourneur, Miguel Lhuissier, Annamaria Colonna, Carlo Tintori, Paolo Peerani, Vitor Sequeira, and Martino Salvato "The EURITRACK project: development of a tagged neutron inspection system for cargo containers", Proc. SPIE 6213, Non-Intrusive Inspection Technologies, 621305 (24 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.665380

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