VITA high flux neutron source for various applications

Marina Bikchurina, Tymofey Bykov, Enkhtsetseg Byambatseren, Ibrahem Ibrahem, Dmitrii Kasatov, Iaroslav Kolesnikov, Viktoriia Konovalova, Alexey Koshkarev, Aleksandr Makarov, Georgii Ostreinov, Sergey Savinov, Evgeniia Sokolova, Igor Sorokin, Ivan Shchudlo, Tatiana Sycheva, Gleb Verkhovod and Sergey Taskaev

Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, 2022, vol. 24, issue 3-4, 273-279

Abstract: A high flux neutron source based on a vacuum-insulated tandem accelerator (VITA) and a lithium target has been proposed and developed at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia. We describe VITA which provides a dc proton/deuteron beam with an energy within a range of 0.6–2.3 MeV with a current from 1 nA to 10 mA. VITA is also capable of producing α -particles through the 7 Li(p, α ) α and 11 B(p, α ) α α reactions, 478 keV photons through the 7 Li(p,p ′ γ ) 7 Li reaction and positrons through the 19 F(p,e + e − ) 16 O reaction. We present several applications of this source: boron neutron capture therapy, nuclear cross sections determination, lithium target study, radiation blistering of metals during proton implantation and the radiation testing of promising materials.

Keywords: Neutron source; vacuum-insulated tandem accelerator; lithium target (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.3233/JNR-220020

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