Monte carlo simulations of Yttrium reaction rates in Quinta uranium target

M. Suchopár; V. Wagner; O. Svoboda; J. Vrzalová; P. Chudoba; P. Tichý; A. Kugler; J. Adam; L. Závorka; A. Baldin; W. Furman; M. Kadykov; J. Khushvaktov; A. Solnyshkin; V. Tsoupko-Sitnikov; S. Tyutyunnikov; M. Bielewicz; S. Kilim; E. Strugalska-Gola; M. Szuta

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201713810003

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Volume 138 (2017)

EPJ Web Conf., 138 (2017) 10003

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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)


Article Number		10003
Number of page(s)		6
Section		Applied use of relativistic beams
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713810003
Published online		27 March 2017

EPJ Web of Conferences 138, 10003 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713810003

Monte carlo simulations of Yttrium reaction rates in Quinta uranium target

M. Suchopár¹^,2^*, V. Wagner¹^,2, O. Svoboda¹, J. Vrzalová¹^,2^,4, P. Chudoba¹^,3, P. Tichý¹^,2^,4, A. Kugler¹, J. Adam¹^,4, L. Závorka^,4, A. Baldin⁴^,5, W. Furman⁴, M. Kadykov⁴^†, J. Khushvaktov⁴, A. Solnyshkin⁴, V. Tsoupko-Sitnikov⁴, S. Tyutyunnikov⁴, M. Bielewicz⁴^,6, S. Kilim⁶, E. Strugalska-Gola⁶ and M. Szuta⁶

¹ Nuclear Physics Institute of the ASCR PRI, Hlavní 130, 250 68 Řež, Czech Republic
² Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic
³ Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic
⁴ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Joliot-Curie 6, 141 980 Dubna, Russia
⁵ Institute for Advanced Studies “OMEGA”, Universitetskaya 19, 141 980 Dubna, Russia
⁶ National Centre for Nuclear Research, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, Poland

^* e-mail: suchopar@ujf.cas.cz
^† deceased

Published online: 27 March 2017

Abstract

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.

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