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Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF
At ISAC-TRIUMF, a 500 MeV proton beam is impinged upon thick targets to induce nuclear reactions to pro-duce reaction products that are delivered as a Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) to experiments. Uranium carbide is among the most commonly used target materials which produces a vast radionuclide invent...
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Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-THPAL117 https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1067/8/082022 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2673663 |
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author | Egoriti, Luca Bricault, Pierre Day Goodacre, Thomas Delonca, Melanie Dierckx, Marc Dos Santos Augusto, Ricardo Manuel Gottberg, Alexander Houngbo, Donald Popescu, Lucia Ramos, Joao Pedro Rothe, Sebastian Stora, Thierry |
author_facet | Egoriti, Luca Bricault, Pierre Day Goodacre, Thomas Delonca, Melanie Dierckx, Marc Dos Santos Augusto, Ricardo Manuel Gottberg, Alexander Houngbo, Donald Popescu, Lucia Ramos, Joao Pedro Rothe, Sebastian Stora, Thierry |
author_sort | Egoriti, Luca |
collection | CERN |
description | At ISAC-TRIUMF, a 500 MeV proton beam is impinged upon thick targets to induce nuclear reactions to pro-duce reaction products that are delivered as a Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) to experiments. Uranium carbide is among the most commonly used target materials which produces a vast radionuclide inventory coming from both spallation and fission- events. This can also represent a major limitation for the successful delivery of certain RIBs to experiments since, for a given mass, many isobar-ic isotopes are to be filtered by the dipole mass separator. These contaminants can exceed the yield of the isotope of interest by orders of magnitude, often causing a significant reduction in the sensitivity of experiments or even making them impossible. The design of a 50 kW proton-to-neutron (p2n) converter-target is ongoing to enhance the production of neutron-rich nuclei while significantly reducing the rate of neutron-deficient contaminants. The converter is made out of a bulk tungsten block which converts proton beams into neutrons through spallation. The neutrons, in turn, induce pure fission in an upstream UCx target. The present target design and the service infrastructure needed for its operation will be discussed in this paper. |
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institution | Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear |
language | eng |
publishDate | 2018 |
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spelling | oai-inspirehep.net-16898082021-02-09T10:06:28Zdoi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-THPAL117doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1067/8/082022http://cds.cern.ch/record/2673663engEgoriti, LucaBricault, PierreDay Goodacre, ThomasDelonca, MelanieDierckx, MarcDos Santos Augusto, Ricardo ManuelGottberg, AlexanderHoungbo, DonaldPopescu, LuciaRamos, Joao PedroRothe, SebastianStora, ThierryDevelopment of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMFAccelerators and Storage RingsAt ISAC-TRIUMF, a 500 MeV proton beam is impinged upon thick targets to induce nuclear reactions to pro-duce reaction products that are delivered as a Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) to experiments. Uranium carbide is among the most commonly used target materials which produces a vast radionuclide inventory coming from both spallation and fission- events. This can also represent a major limitation for the successful delivery of certain RIBs to experiments since, for a given mass, many isobar-ic isotopes are to be filtered by the dipole mass separator. These contaminants can exceed the yield of the isotope of interest by orders of magnitude, often causing a significant reduction in the sensitivity of experiments or even making them impossible. The design of a 50 kW proton-to-neutron (p2n) converter-target is ongoing to enhance the production of neutron-rich nuclei while significantly reducing the rate of neutron-deficient contaminants. The converter is made out of a bulk tungsten block which converts proton beams into neutrons through spallation. The neutrons, in turn, induce pure fission in an upstream UCx target. The present target design and the service infrastructure needed for its operation will be discussed in this paper.At ISAC-TRIUMF, a 500 MeV proton beam is impinged upon “thick” targets to induce nuclear reactions to produce reaction products that are delivered as a Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) to experiments. Uranium carbide is among the most commonly used target materials which produces a vast radionuclide inventory coming from both spallation and fission-events. This can also represent a major limitation for the successful delivery of certain RIBs to experiments since, for a given mass, many isobaric isotopes are to be filtered by the dipole mass separator. These contaminants can exceed the yield of the isotope of interest by orders of magnitude, often causing a significant reduction in the sensitivity of experiments or even making them impossible. The design of a 50 kW proton-to-neutron (p2n) converter-target is ongoing to enhance the production of neutron-rich nuclei while significantly reducing the rate of neutron-deficient contaminants. The converter is made out of a bulk tungsten block which converts proton beams into neutrons through spallation. The neutrons, in turn, induce pure fission in an upstream UCx target. The present target design and the service infra-structure needed for its operation will be discussed in this paper.oai:inspirehep.net:16898082018 |
spellingShingle | Accelerators and Storage Rings Egoriti, Luca Bricault, Pierre Day Goodacre, Thomas Delonca, Melanie Dierckx, Marc Dos Santos Augusto, Ricardo Manuel Gottberg, Alexander Houngbo, Donald Popescu, Lucia Ramos, Joao Pedro Rothe, Sebastian Stora, Thierry Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF |
title | Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF |
title_full | Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF |
title_fullStr | Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF |
title_short | Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF |
title_sort | development of a proton-to-neutron converter for radioisotope production at isac-triumf |
topic | Accelerators and Storage Rings |
url | https://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-THPAL117 https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1067/8/082022 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2673663 |
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