A neutron detector for cold fusion experiments

This paper describes a neutron detector designed by INFN-Sanità group of Rome. The detector ful"lls all the requirements of cold fusion experiments and, on the other hand, can operate in several kind of experiments involving neutron detection, even when signi"cant, variable and not taggable background is present. As a matter of fact, it is suitable to detect every source emitting multi-MeV neutrons, correlated or not correlated, in burst or constant rate, isotropic or directional. It is a low-noise detector. The detector was used in cold fusion experiments demonstrating, with high sensibility, the absence of neutron emission in these phenomena. ( 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.