Studies of deuteron and neutron croß-sections important for ADS research

V. Wagner, J. Vrzalová, M. Suchopár, O. Svoboda, M. Majerle, A. Kugler, J. Adam, A. Baldin, W. Furman, M. Kadykov, A. Solnyshkin, V. Tsupko-Sitnikov, S. Tyutyunikov, N. Vladimirovna, L. Závorka, M. Bielewicz, S. Kilim, M. Szuta, E. Strugalska-Gola

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Abstract

The collaboration Energy and Transmutation of Radioactive Waste uses different setups consisting of lead, natural uranium and graphite irradiated by relativistic protons and deuterons to study transmutation of radioactive materials by produced neutrons. The activation samples are used to determine integral of proton or deuteron beams and also produced neutron flux in different places of experimental set-ups. Unfortunately almost no experimental croß-section data for deuterons with GeV energies are available. The similar situation is also for threshold (n,xn) reactions of neutrons with higher energies. Therefore we carried out series of experiments devoted to determination of deuteron reactions on copper during uranium target QUINTA irradiations by deuterons with energies from 1 GeV up to 8 GeV. The croß-sections of various threshold reactions were studied by means of different quasi-monoenergetic neutron sources with poßible energies from 14 MeV up to 100 MeV. Knowledge of such croß-sections is very important for all Accelerator Driven System studies.

Original languageEnglish
Article number090
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume2012-January
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event21st International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems, ISHEPP 2012 - Dubna, Russian Federation
Duration: Sep 10 2012Sep 15 2012

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