Evaluation of neutron properties from (g, n) reactions in the laser-driven ion accelerator

レーザー駆動型加速器による-n反応からの中性子特性評価

榊 泰直; 福田 祐仁; 金崎 真聡; 西内 満美子; 神野 智史   ; 余語 覚文; 深見 智代; 近藤 公伯; 佐藤 達彦   ; 渡辺 幸信; 仁井田 浩二*

Sakaki, Hironao; Fukuda, Yuji; Kanasaki, Masato; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Jinno, Satoshi; Yogo, Akifumi; Fukami, Tomoyo; Kondo, Kiminori; Sato, Tatsuhiko; Watanabe, Yukinobu; Niita, Koji*

レーザー駆動型加速手法によって加速される電子ビームによる光中性子反応(g, n)プロセスにて発生する中性子特性を把握し、遮蔽対策を考慮するだけでなく、それら中性子の効率的な応用が図れるようにするため、核データライブラリを用いたモンテカルロシミュレーションと実験結果を比較検討することを始めたので報告する。

Generally, if several-tens MeV electron is dumped into some material, photons with the same energy level are created by bremsstrahlung radiation. And then neutron is generated because of the (g, n) reactions. In current researches, electron energies are getting higher as the high-energy ions are generated. Therefore, when the energy of laser driven accelerated ion exceeds several-tens of MeV, it is impossible to disregard the neutron generation from the (g, n) reactions. Although such a neutron becomes as a background-nose of the ion measurement, a quantitative evaluation has not carried out in the laser-driven ions acceleration experiments yet. We report an evaluation of those neutron properties by using measurement data in the laser-plasma interaction experiments, and it is discussed with a result of Monte Carlo simulation including the (g, n) reaction processes.