Abstract
Simulation work is underway to identify a very cold neutron source solution that would provide an order of magnitude higher neutron output than the conventional moderator suite. Moderator candidates such as water ice, beryllium, ortho-D2, CH4, and neon all solid at temperatures of 4-6 K were investigated. At present no moderator option was able to achieve the set goal; ortho-D2 and CH4 seem to be the most promising options.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 012083 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
| Volume | 1021 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jun 4 2018 |
| Event | 22nd Meeting of the International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources, ICANS 2017 - Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: Mar 27 2017 → Mar 31 2017 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).