1. Note: Proton irradiation at kilowatt-power and neutron production from a free-surface liquid-lithium target.
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Halfon, S., Arenshtam, A., Kijel, D., Paul, M., Weissman, L., Aviv, O., Berkovits, D., Dudovitch, O., Eisen, Y., Eliyahu, I., Feinberg, G., Haquin, G., Hazenshprung, N., Kreisel, A., Mardor, I., Shimel, G., Shor, A., Silverman, I., Tessler, M., and Yungrais, Z.
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PROTONS ,PLASMA accelerators ,FREE surfaces ,PROTON beams ,NEUTRONS - Abstract
The free-surface Liquid-Lithium Target, recently developed at Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF), was successfully used with a 1.9 MeV, 1.2 mA (2.3 kW) continuous-wave proton beam. Neutrons (~2 x 10
10 n/s having a peak energy of ~27 keV) from the7 Li(p,n)7 Be reaction were detected with a fission-chamber detector and by gold activation targets positioned in the forward direction. The setup is being used for nuclear astrophysics experiments to study neutron-induced reactions at stellar energies and to demonstrate the feasibility of accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2014
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