TY - JOUR
T1 - Monte carlo simulations of Yttrium reaction rates in Quinta uranium target
AU - Suchopár, M.
AU - Wagner, V.
AU - Svoboda, O.
AU - Vrzalová, J.
AU - Chudoba, P.
AU - Tichý, P.
AU - Kugler, A.
AU - Adam, J.
AU - Závorka, L.
AU - Baldin, A.
AU - Furman, W.
AU - Kadykov, M.
AU - Khushvaktov, J.
AU - Solnyshkin, A.
AU - Tsoupko-Sitnikov, V.
AU - Tyutyunnikov, S.
AU - Bielewicz, M.
AU - Kilim, S.
AU - Strugalska-Gola, E.
AU - Szuta, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017.
PY - 2017/3/27
Y1 - 2017/3/27
N2 - The international collaboration Energy and Transmutation of Radioactive Waste (E&T RAW) performed intensive studies of several simple accelerator-driven system (ADS) setups consisting of lead, uranium and graphite which were irradiated by relativistic proton and deuteron beams in the past years at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. The most recent setup called Quinta, consisting of natural uranium target-blanket and lead shielding, was irradiated by deuteron beams in the energy range between 1 and 8 GeV in three accelerator runs at JINR Nuclotron in 2011 and 2012 with yttrium samples among others inserted inside the setup to measure the neutron flux in various places. Suitable activation detectors serve as one of possible tools for monitoring of proton and deuteron beams and for measurements of neutron field distribution in ADS studies. Yttrium is one of such suitable materials for monitoring of high energy neutrons. Various threshold reactions can be observed in yttrium samples. The yields of isotopes produced in the samples were determined using the activation method. Monte Carlo simulations of the reaction rates leading to production of different isotopes were performed in the MCNPX transport code and compared with the experimental results obtained from the yttrium samples.
AB - The international collaboration Energy and Transmutation of Radioactive Waste (E&T RAW) performed intensive studies of several simple accelerator-driven system (ADS) setups consisting of lead, uranium and graphite which were irradiated by relativistic proton and deuteron beams in the past years at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. The most recent setup called Quinta, consisting of natural uranium target-blanket and lead shielding, was irradiated by deuteron beams in the energy range between 1 and 8 GeV in three accelerator runs at JINR Nuclotron in 2011 and 2012 with yttrium samples among others inserted inside the setup to measure the neutron flux in various places. Suitable activation detectors serve as one of possible tools for monitoring of proton and deuteron beams and for measurements of neutron field distribution in ADS studies. Yttrium is one of such suitable materials for monitoring of high energy neutrons. Various threshold reactions can be observed in yttrium samples. The yields of isotopes produced in the samples were determined using the activation method. Monte Carlo simulations of the reaction rates leading to production of different isotopes were performed in the MCNPX transport code and compared with the experimental results obtained from the yttrium samples.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85017143005
U2 - 10.1051/epjconf/201713810003
DO - 10.1051/epjconf/201713810003
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85017143005
SN - 2101-6275
VL - 138
JO - EPJ Web of Conferences
JF - EPJ Web of Conferences
M1 - 10003
T2 - 23rd International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics, Baldin ISHEPP 2016
Y2 - 19 September 2016 through 24 September 2016
ER -