TY - JOUR
T1 - Activation measurement of neutron production and transport in a thick lead target and a uranium blanket during 4 GeV deuteron irradiation
AU - Suchopar, Martin
AU - Wagner, Vladimir
AU - Svoboda, Ondrej
AU - Vrzalova, Jitka
AU - Chudoba, Petr
AU - Tichy, Pavel
AU - Majerle, Mitja
AU - Krása, Antonin
AU - Kugler, Andrej
AU - Adam, Jindrich
AU - Zavorka, Lukas
AU - Baldin, Anton
AU - Furman, Walter I.
AU - Kadykov, Mikhail G.
AU - Khushvaktov , Jurabek
AU - Solnyshkin, Alexander
AU - Tsoupko-Sitnikov , Vsevolod
AU - Tyutyunnikov, Sergey
N1 - Score=10
PY - 2018/11/11
Y1 - 2018/11/11
N2 - Several simple accelerator-driven system (ADS) setups were irradiated by relativistic proton and deuteron beams in last years at the Nuclotron synchrotron site of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. This paper is dedicated to a 4 GeV deuteron irradiation of a setup called Energy plus Transmutation (E+T), consisting of a lead target, natural uranium blanket, and polyethylene shielding. This paper represents the finalization of data analysis and concludes systematics of the proton and deuteron experiments carried out with the E+T setup. Activation detectors served for monitoring of proton and deuteron beams and for measurements of neutron field distribution in model ADS studies. Products of reactions with thresholds up to 106 MeV as well as non-threshold reactions were observed in the samples. The yields of the produced isotopes were determined using the gamma-ray spectrometry and compared with Monte Carlo simulations performed with the MCNPX transport code.
AB - Several simple accelerator-driven system (ADS) setups were irradiated by relativistic proton and deuteron beams in last years at the Nuclotron synchrotron site of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. This paper is dedicated to a 4 GeV deuteron irradiation of a setup called Energy plus Transmutation (E+T), consisting of a lead target, natural uranium blanket, and polyethylene shielding. This paper represents the finalization of data analysis and concludes systematics of the proton and deuteron experiments carried out with the E+T setup. Activation detectors served for monitoring of proton and deuteron beams and for measurements of neutron field distribution in model ADS studies. Products of reactions with thresholds up to 106 MeV as well as non-threshold reactions were observed in the samples. The yields of the produced isotopes were determined using the gamma-ray spectrometry and compared with Monte Carlo simulations performed with the MCNPX transport code.
KW - ADS
KW - spallation
KW - deuteron beam
KW - threshold neutron reaction
KW - fast neutrons
KW - neutron activation method
KW - MCNPX
KW - Energy plus transmutation
UR - http://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll/open/31727575
U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2018.08.120
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2018.08.120
M3 - Article
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 908
SP - 347
EP - 360
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
ER -