The search for explosives hidden in vehicles is one of the tasks of counterterrorism application. This task requires the detection of explosive material in car or truck bombs as well as illicit transport of such items. Liquid explosives, especially home made (HME) ones, have been used in terrorist attacks and are thus of great importance in this field. The detection of HME liquid explosives in trucks by using a neutron-in/gamma-out system as the EURITRACK portal is discussed. Moreover the possibility of material recognition by transmission measurements with a tagged 252Cf source is also presented. The latter system might find application in car inspections or in small parcel scanning systems. © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Search of explosives in vehicles by using tagged neutrons
Donzella A.;Bonomi G.;Zenoni A.
2008-01-01
Abstract
The search for explosives hidden in vehicles is one of the tasks of counterterrorism application. This task requires the detection of explosive material in car or truck bombs as well as illicit transport of such items. Liquid explosives, especially home made (HME) ones, have been used in terrorist attacks and are thus of great importance in this field. The detection of HME liquid explosives in trucks by using a neutron-in/gamma-out system as the EURITRACK portal is discussed. Moreover the possibility of material recognition by transmission measurements with a tagged 252Cf source is also presented. The latter system might find application in car inspections or in small parcel scanning systems. © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media B.V.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
