The Neutrons for Science Facility at SPIRAL-2

0440796 - ÚJF 2015 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Ledoux, X. - Avrigeanu, M. - Avrigeanu, V. - Bém, Pavel - Fischer, U. - Majerle, Mitja - Mrázek, Jaromír - Negoita, F. - Novák, Jan - Simakov, S. P. - Šimečková, Eva … Total 64 authors
The Neutrons for Science Facility at SPIRAL-2.
Nuclear Data Sheets. Roč. 119, MAY (2014), s. 353-356. ISSN 0090-3752. E-ISSN 1095-9904
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : SPIRAL-2 * Neutron For Science * time-of-flight
Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders
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SPIRAL-2 is dedicated to the production of high intensity Radioactive Ions Beams. It is based on a high-power linear accelerator to accelerate deuterons beams in order to produce neutrons by breakup reactions on a C converter. These neutrons will induce fission in 238U 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.
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