Detection of explosive remnants of war by neutron thermalisation

Autor(en)

Frank D. Brooks, Manfred Drosg, F. D. Smit, Charles Wikner

Abstrakt

The HYDAD-D landmine detector (Brooks and Drosg, 2005) has been modified and field-tested for 17 months in a variety of soil conditions. Test objects containing about the same mass of hydrogen (20 g) as small explosive remnants of war, such as antipersonnel landmines, were detected with efficiency 100% when buried at cover depths up to 10 cm. The false alarm rate under the same conditions was 9%. Plots of detection efficiency versus false alarm rate are presented.

Organisation(en)

Aerosolphysik und Umweltphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Cape Town, iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences

Journal

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Band

70

Seiten

119-127

Anzahl der Seiten

9

ISSN

0969-8043

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.07.006

Publikationsdatum

2012

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103005 Atomphysik, 105904 Umweltforschung

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8b1fd329-0135-481d-b3b2-cadcd7891533