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The Neutrons for Science Facility at SPIRAL-2

Authors :
Ledoux, X.
Aiche, M.
Avrigeanu, M.
Avrigeanu, V.
Audouin, L.
Oberstedt, Andreas
Tarrio, D.
Takibayev, A.
Thfoin, I.
Tsekhanovich, I.
Varignon, C.
Ledoux, X.
Aiche, M.
Avrigeanu, M.
Avrigeanu, V.
Audouin, L.
Oberstedt, Andreas
Tarrio, D.
Takibayev, A.
Thfoin, I.
Tsekhanovich, I.
Varignon, C.
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

The Neutrons For Science (NFS) facility is a component of SPIRAL-2 laboratory under construction at Caen (France). SPIRAL-2 is dedicated to the production of high intensity Radioactive Ions Beams (RIB). It is based on a high-power linear accelerator (LINAG) to accelerate deuterons beams in order to produce neutrons by breakup reactions on a C converter. These neutrons will induce fission in U-238 for production of radioactive isotopes. Additionally to the RIB production, the proton and deuteron beams delivered by the accelerator will be used in the NFS facility. NFS is composed of a pulsed neutron beam and irradiation stations for cross-section measurements and material studies. The beams delivered by the LINAG will allow producing intense neutron beams in the 100 keV - 40 MeV energy range with either a continuous or quasi-mono-energetic spectrum. At NFS available average fluxes will be up to 2 orders of magnitude higher than those of other existing time-of-flight facilities in the 1 MeV - 40 MeV range. NFS will be a very powerful tool for fundamental physics and application related research in support of the transmutation of nuclear waste, design of future fission and fusion reactors, nuclear medicine or test and development of new detectors. The facility and its characteristics are described, and several examples of the first potential experiments are presented.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Notes :
English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1233923833
Document Type :
Electronic Resource
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016.j.nds.2014.08.097