Ядерна фізика та енергетика Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy   ISSN: 1818-331X (Print), 2074-0565 (Online)   Publisher: Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine   Languages: Ukrainian, English   Periodicity: 4 times per year   Open access peer reviewed journal

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P. M. Vorona, O. I. Kalchenko, V. G. Krivenko

Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract: Nondestructive method for analysis of stoichiometric ratio in metal hydrides has been developed. It is based on analysis of total neutron cross sections for hydride samples measured in the area of slow neutrons with use of neutron spectrometry time of flight method. As on titanium hydride example, it is shown, that measurement and analysis of total neutron cross sections for samples TiH_n allow to evaluate the value of ratio metal-hydrogen in hydride (n) with accuracy ∼ 1 %.

Keywords: metal hydrides, slow neutrons, neutron cross sections, stoichiometric ratio.

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