Neutron reflectometry with the Multi-Blade 10B-based detector.
Giacomo MauriF MessiM AnastasopoulosT ArnoldA GlavicC HöglundT IlvesI Lopez HigueraP PazmandiD RaspinoL RobinsonS SchmidtP SvenssonD VargaR Hall-WiltonF PiscitelliPublished in: Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (2018)
The Multi-Blade is a boron-10-based gaseous detector developed for neutron reflectometry instruments at the European Spallation Source in Sweden. The main challenges for neutron reflectometry detectors are the instantaneous counting rate and spatial resolution. The Multi-Blade has been tested on the CRISP reflectometer at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in the UK. A campaign of scientific measurements has been performed to study the Multi-Blade response in real instrumental conditions. The results of these tests are discussed in this paper.