Characterization of plastic and boron carbide additive manufactured neutron collimators

M. B. Stone; D. H. Siddel; A. M. Elliott; D. Anderson; D. L. Abernathy

doi:10.1063/1.4998930

Characterization of plastic and boron carbide additive manufactured neutron collimators

M. B. Stone, D. H. Siddel, A. M. Elliott, D. Anderson, D. L. Abernathy

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Additive manufacturing techniques allow for the production of materials with complicated geometries with reduced costs and production time over traditional methods. We have applied this technique to the production of neutron collimators for use in thermal and cold neutron scattering instrumentation directly out of boron carbide. We discuss the design and generation of these collimators. We also provide measurements at neutron scattering beamlines which serve to characterize the performance of these collimators. Additive manufacturing of parts using neutron absorbing material may also find applications in radiography and neutron moderation.

Original language	English
Article number	123102
Journal	Review of Scientific Instruments
Volume	88
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998930
State	Published - Dec 1 2017

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). A portion of this research at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor and Spallation Neutron Source was sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy.

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