| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 138, 2017
XXIII International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics (Baldin ISHEPP XXIII)
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| Article Number | 10002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Applied use of relativistic beams | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713810002 | |
| Published online | 27 March 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713810002
Measurements and usage of cross sections of various (n,xn) threshold reactions
1 Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, 250 68 Ř ež near Prague, Czech Republic
2 Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16 Praha 2,
3 Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19 Prague, Czech Republic
* e-mail: chudoba@ujf.cas.cz
Published online: 27 March 2017
Current trend in nuclear reactor physics is a transition from technologies using thermal neutrons to technologies utilizing fast neutrons. Unfortunately focus was put mainly on the thermal neutrons for a long time and lead to very good knowledge about this low energy region, but very scarce coverage of the high energy region. This means that there is a gap in the knowledge of excitation functions for higher energies. This gap spreads from 20 MeV up to 1 GeV and higher. This is exactly the energy region needed for description of advanced nuclear systems such as accelerator driven systems (ADS). Our group from Nuclear Physics Institute (NPI) of the CAS is a member of an international collaboration Energy & Transmutation of Radioactive Waste (E&T RAW). This collaboration focuses on ADS for many years. In order to measure neutron field within ADS models it is necessary to know excitation functions of reactions used to monitor the neutron field. In many cases there are almost no experimental data for suitable reactions. Worse and quite common case is that there are no data at all. Therefore we are also focusing on measurements of these data in order to fill the databases as well as to allow further improvements of codes for nuclear data calculations.
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