Monte Carlo simulations and experimental results on neutron production in the uranium spallation target QUINTA irradiated with 660 MeV protons

0490612 - ÚJF 2019 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Khushvaktov, J. - Adam, Jindřich - Baldin, A. A. - Furman, W. - Gustov, S. A. - Kish, Y. V. - Solnyshkin, A. A. - Stegailov, V. I. - Svoboda, J. - Tichy, P. - Tsoupko-Sitnikov, V. M. - Tyutyunnikov, S. I. - Vespalec, R. - Vrzalová, Jitka - Wagner, Vladimír - Yuldashev, B. - Zavorka, L. - Zeman, M.
Monte Carlo simulations and experimental results on neutron production in the uranium spallation target QUINTA irradiated with 660 MeV protons.
Applied Radiation and Isotopes. Roč. 137, č. 6 (2018), s. 102-107. ISSN 0969-8043
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LG14004; GA MŠMT LTT18021
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : accelerator-driven systems * neutron fluence * fission reaction * uranium * Monte Carlo simulations * Geant4
OECD category: Nuclear physics
Impact factor: 1.343, year: 2018

The activation experiment was performed using the accelerated beam of Phasotron accelerator at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). The natural uranium spallation target QUINTA was irradiated with protons with energy 660 MeV. Monte Carlo simulations of neutron production were performed using the Geant4 code. The number of leakage neutrons from the sections of the uranium target surrounded by the lead shielding and the number of leakage neutrons from lead were determined. The total number of fissions in the setup QUINTA was determined. Experimental values of reaction rates for the produced nuclei in the I-127 sample were obtained and several values of reaction rates were compared with the results of simulations. Experimentally determined fluence of neutrons in energy interval 10-175 MeV using the (n,xn) reactions in the I-127(NaI) sample was compared with the results of simulations. Possibility of transmutation of the long-lived radionuclide I-129 in the QUINTA setup was estimated.
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