1. VITA high flux neutron source for various applications.
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Bikchurina, Marina, Bykov, Tymofey, Byambatseren, Enkhtsetseg, Ibrahem, Ibrahem, Kasatov, Dmitrii, Kolesnikov, Iaroslav, Konovalova, Viktoriia, Koshkarev, Alexey, Makarov, Aleksandr, Ostreinov, Georgii, Savinov, Sergey, Sokolova, Evgeniia, Sorokin, Igor, Shchudlo, Ivan, Sycheva, Tatiana, Verkhovod, Gleb, and Taskaev, Sergey
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NEUTRON flux ,NEUTRON sources ,BORON-neutron capture therapy ,NUCLEAR cross sections ,NUCLEAR physics ,PROTON beams - Abstract
A high flux neutron source based on a vacuum-insulated tandem accelerator (VITA) and a lithium target has been proposed and developed at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia. We describe VITA which provides a dc proton/deuteron beam with an energy within a range of 0.6–2.3 MeV with a current from 1 nA to 10 mA. VITA is also capable of producing α-particles through the
7 Li(p,α)α and11 B(p,α) α α reactions, 478 keV photons through the7 Li(p,p ′ γ)7 Li reaction and positrons through the19 F(p,e+ e− )16 O reaction. We present several applications of this source: boron neutron capture therapy, nuclear cross sections determination, lithium target study, radiation blistering of metals during proton implantation and the radiation testing of promising materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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