NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, Volume. 48, Issue 6, 060005(2025)

An unfolding method for bonner sphere spectrometer measurement independent of prior information

Songqian TANG3, Yi TAN3, Junyun YANG4, Bin LIU1,2、*, Shuo LI1,2, and Liangming PAN1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Low-grad Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
  • 2Department of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610213, China
  • 4China Institute of Nuclear Industry Strategy, Beijing 100089, China
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    Figures & Tables(7)
    Diagram of integrated multi-sphere neutron spectrometer (a) and its response function (b) (color online)
    Snapping of experimental setup
    Spectral unfolding results of the GRAVEL method (a), ML-EM method (b) and the iterative regularization method (c)
    Convolutional and measured values of detector counts (a) and its relative deviation (b)
    Comparison of errors among three spectral unfolding methods (a) Calculation error, (b) Relative deviation from the true value
    • Table 1. Moderator thickness and detector counts

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      Table 1. Moderator thickness and detector counts

      厚度

      Thickness / cm

      01.051.852.93.9555.86.65

      计数

      Counting

      48913554239781 0981 5901 500

      厚度

      Thickness / cm

      7.78.759.810.611.65

      计数

      Counting

      1 5731 9251 7981 9431 787
    • Table 2. Estimation of the accuracy of deconvolution results

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      Table 2. Estimation of the accuracy of deconvolution results

      解谱方法

      Unfolding method

      GRAVELML-EM

      迭代正则化方法

      The iterative regularization method

      RelE / %10310716
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    Paper Information

    Category: Special Topics of Academic Papers at The 27th Annual Meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology

    Received: May. 11, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 25, 2025

    The Author Email: Bin LIU (刘斌)

    DOI:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2025.hjs.48.240155

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