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Rather than destroy a functioning RGA, why not just connect the RGA to the source side of the gas going into the ion beam generator. If you build a small chamber separate from the main chamber into which the feed gas goes, and then you put an RGA connected to that, and the ion source separates the s...

Those cpm counts are pretty high. Have you considered moving your neutron detection tube so it is 2x, 4x or 10x further away from your source, so that you reduce your cpm by a factor of 4, 16 or 100? At some point you may compromise the accuracy of your numbers because the count rate is so high. (A ...

So that would be 5.3E7 n/sec total based on multipliers you used in the other thread.

Correct?

Joe.

Yes, many of them. The Marriott Library at the University of Utah has a large collection of Philo Farnsworth papers. The vast majority of which are technical. Included are lab notebooks from Hirsch, and Meeks, as well as Farnsworth. I have about 30+GB of pictures of said material. I took said photos...

Very cool Jon. You and Joe Gayo are probably the only two people on this site that can currently generate enough neutrons to do this activation in a reasonable amount of time.

Your detector setup for generating spectra is without doubt vastly superior to what anyone else here has.

Joe.

1.2E+7 n/sec (your last run) is doing VERY well indeed.

What pressure are you running at? If there is no plasma glow at all, I expect you are running at much lower pressures than pretty much everyone else here.

Joe.

For your two calibration runs, the ratios between the cpm and the total neutrons emitted per second are different. Based on the first run, the expected total n/sec for the second run would be 3.9E+6. (95kcpm / 56kcpm) * 2.3E+6 n/sec = 3.9E+6 n/sec Or is the relationship between cpm and n/sec not lin...

So what is your estimated total neutron ouput per second for this run?

That very large neutron tube looks like one of a pair of tubes Jon Rosenstiel was using to detect neutrons generated from high energy cosmic rays a few years back.

Joe.

Lithium 6 deuteride is thermonuclear bomb fuel. Why do you keep bringing up topics that have nothing to do with fusors? Keep it up, and you will likely just get banned.

Joe.

Found this article online and thought it was relevant.