RSICC DATA PACKAGE DLC-277

 

 

1. NAME AND TITLE OF DATA LIBRARY

(ZZ) N-SPECT/DET-RESP, Neutron Spectra and Detector Responses for Radiation Protection

 

2. NAME AND TITLE OF DATA RETRIEVAL PROGRAMS

N/A

 

3. CONTRIBUTOR

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LIVERMORE, California, U.S.A.; Central Research Institute for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, BUDAPEST, Hungary; and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, BOMBAY, India; via the OECD NEA Data Bank, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. (D00277MNYCP00 NEADB ID: IAEA1217)

 

4. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND INFORMATION

The Compendium of Neutron Spectra and Detector Responses for Radiation Protection Purposes (Technical Reports Series No. 318) published in 1990 contains a large collection of detector responses and spectra. This supplement to that compendium represents a technical update that has become necessary in order to take account of:

• -Major changes in the recommended energy dependence of risk related quantities,
• The increased importance of high neutron energies,
• The increased use of boron neutron capture therapy,
• Promising new developments in detector design,
• The many new measured workplace spectra,
• Improved calibration facilities.

This supplement includes the fluence to dose equivalent conversion coefficients for the recently recommended radiation protection quantities and a large number of fluence response functions for recently developed or improved detectors, as well as over 200 new spectra. It is hoped that this supplement will assist in the proper selection of the detectors, survey instruments and calibration sources that are to be used in radiation monitoring programmes. [1]

 

5. APPLICATION OF THE DATA

This data library is a compendium of neutron spectra and detector responses for radiation protection purposes. The following types of quantities are included: dosimetric quantities, neutron dosimeter response functions and calibration spectra, reactor and other operational spectra.

 

6. SOURCE AND SCOPE OF DATA

Neutron spectra

 

7. DISCUSSION OF THE DATA RETRIEVAL PROGRAM

N/A

 

8. DATA FORMAT AND COMPUTER

ALL

 

9. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

N/A

 

10. REFERENCES

Background Documentation:

[1] Compendium of Neutron Spectra and Detector Responses for Radiation Protection Purposes Technical Reports Series No. 318, IAEA, Vienna (1990)

[2] Compendium of Neutron Spectra and Detector Responses for Radiation Protection Purposes Technical Reports Series No. 403, Supplement to Technical Reports Series No. 318, IAEA, Vienna (2001)

11. CONTENTS OF LIBRARY

Package contains data files for Dosimetric Quantities, Data File Detector Energy Response, Data File Neutron Spectra, Data File Neutron Spectrum Averaged Resp. TRS403.pdf TM (D00277MNYCP00 NEADB ID: IAEA1217)

 

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

July 2026.

 

KEYWORDS:     DATA LIBRARIES, GAMMA DETECTORS, NEUTRON DETECTORS, RADIATION DETECTORS, RADIATION DOSES, RADIATION EFFECTS, RESPONSE FUNCTIONS