Friday, May 15, 2009

Eberline Smart Portable radiation detector, hexc

We recently borrowed a Eberline Smart Portable (ESP) detector from Peter Farina, who is the senior radiation safety officer.  Thank you Peter.  This unit has a serial interface and can have multiple switchable detector modules.  

One exciting thing about this unit is that it has a neutron ball module.  We could certainly use this unit to get an initial study of cosmic ray neutron flux distribution. 

I will try to get an undergraduate to test this system out.  It should not be that hard to get it working with LabView.