| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 204, 2019
XXIV International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems “Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics” (Baldin ISHEPP XXIV)
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| Article Number | 04005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Applied Use of Relativistic Beams | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920404005 | |
| Published online | 03 April 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920404005
Np-237 transmutation efficiency dependence on beam particle, energy and sample position in QUINTA setup
1 National Centre for Nuclear Research, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, Poland
2 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia
* e-mail: stanislaw.kilim@ncbj.gov.pl
Published online: 3 April 2019
Np-237 samples were irradiated with spallation neutrons produced at the ADS setup QUINTA. Six experiments were carried out at the JINR, in Dubna – one in carbon (C6+), three in deuteron, and two in proton beams. The energy in carbon was 24 GeV, in deuteron – 2, 4 and 8 GeV, respectively, and 660 MeV in the proton beam. In five cases the sample was located in a side window in a lead shield. In one case (660 MeV proton beam) two samples were located on the top of the QUINTA setup, one – on the top of section 2, and the second one – on the top of section 4. The transmutation study method was based on gamma-ray spectrometry. During the analysis of the spectra several fission products and one actinide were identified. Fission product activities yielded the number of fissions. The actinide (Np-238), a result of neutron capture by Np-237, yielded the number of captures.
The main goal of this work was to find out if and how the transmutation rate depended on the accelerator beam and sample location during the irradiation.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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