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Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Araki, Shohei; Nakano, Keita; Kawase, Shoichiro*; Kin, Tadahiro*; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Satoh, Daiki; Hagiwara, Masayuki*; Yashima, Hiroshi*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 284, p.01041_1 - 01041_4, 2023/05
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)Intensive fast neutron sources using deuteron accelerators have been proposed for the study of medical RI production, radiation damage for fusion reactor materials, nuclear transmutation of radioactive waste, and so on. Neutron production data from various materials bombarded by deuterons are required for the design of such neutron sources. In the present work, we have conducted a systematic measurement of double-differential neutron production cross sections (DDXs) for a wide atomic number range of targets (Li, Be, C, Al, Cu, Nb, In, Ta, and Au) at an incident energy of 200 MeV in the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University. A deuteron beam accelerated to 200 MeV was transported to the neutron experimental hall and focused on a thin target foil. Emitted neutrons from the target were detected by two different-size EJ301 liquid organic scintillators located at two distances of 7 m and 20 m, respectively. The neutron DDXs were measured at six angles from 0 to 25). The neutron energy was determined by a conventional time-of-flight (TOF) method. The measured DDXs were compared with theoretical model calculations by the DEUteron-induced Reaction Analysis Code System (DEURACS) and PHITS. The result indicated that the DEURACS calculation provides better agreement with the measured DDXs than the PHITS calculation.
Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Araki, Shohei*; Nakano, Keita*; Kawase, Shoichiro*; Kin, Tadahiro*; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Satoh, Daiki; Hagiwara, Masayuki*; Yashima, Hiroshi*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 239, p.20012_1 - 20012_4, 2020/09
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:83.55(Nuclear Science & Technology)Accelerator-based neutron sources induced by deuteron beams are attractive for study of nuclear transmutation of radioactive waste as well as radiation damage for fusion reactor materials. In the present work, we have carried out a Double Differential cross section (DDX) measurement for Li at 200 MeV in the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University. A deuteron beam accelerated to 200 MeV was transported to the neutron experimental hall and focused on a thin Li target. Emitted neutrons from the target were detected by two different-size EJ301 liquid organic scintillators located at two distances of 7 m and 20 m, respectively. The neutron DDXs were measured at six angles from 0 to 25). The neutron detection efficiencies of the detectors were calculated by SCINFUL-QMD code. We will present the results of the present DDX measurement and compare them with theoretical model calculations with DEURACS and PHITS.
Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Nakayama, Shinsuke; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Iwamoto, Osamu; Ogata, Kazuyuki*
JAEA-Conf 2017-001, p.135 - 140, 2018/01
In recent years, the demand for intense neutron sources has been increasing in various applications such as nuclear transmutation of high-level radioactive waste and medical radioisotopes production. Deuteron accelerator-based neutron sources are promised as one of the candidates. Therefore, we have developed a code system dedicated for the deuteron-induced reactions, called DEURACS. In the present work, we focus on deuteron-induced neutron production from Li target. The calculated double differential cross sections for reactions at incident energies of 25, 40, and 102 MeV are compared with the measured ones, and the applicability of DEURACS is discussed.
Araki, Shohei*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Kitajima, Mizuki*; Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Nakano, Keita*; Kin, Tadahiro*; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Satoh, Daiki; Hagiwara, Masayuki*; Yashima, Hiroshi*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 146, p.11027_1 - 11027_4, 2017/09
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)In recently years, deuteron-induced reaction is considered to produce the neutron source for application fields such as radiation damage fusion materials and boron neutron capture therapy. However, as the experimental data are not sufficient at incident energies above 60 MeV, the theoretical models are not validated. Therefore, we measured the double differential cross sections (DDXs) for Li, Be and C at 100 MeV at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics in Osaka University. The DDXs were measured at 6 angles (025 and neutron energy was determined by a time of flight method. Three different-size NE213 liquid organic scintillators located at a distance of 7 m, 24 m and 74 m respectively were adopted as neutron detectors. In the measured DDXs, a broad peak due to deuteron breakup process was observed at approximately half of the deuteron incident energy. The DDXs calculated by PHITS did not reproduce the experimental ones due to lack of theoretical model.
Araki, Shohei*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Kitajima, Mizuki*; Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Nakano, Keita*; Kin, Tadahiro*; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Satoh, Daiki; Hagiwara, Masayuki*; Yashima, Hiroshi*; et al.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 842, p.62 - 70, 2017/01
Times Cited Count:14 Percentile:77.80(Instruments & Instrumentation)Recently, deuteron incident reaction is expected to be used as a neutron source for study of radiation damage in fusion materials, boron neutron capture therapy, and so on. However, experimental data to validate the model is very few. In this work, double-differential neutron production cross sections (DDXs) for deuteron-induced reactions on Li, Be, C, Al, Cu, and Nb at 102 MeV were measured at forward angles 25 by means of a time of flight (TOF) method with NE213 liquid organic scintillators at the Research Center of Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University. The experimental DDXs and energy-integrated cross sections were compared with TENDL-2015 data and PHITS calculation. The PHITS calculation showed better agreement with the experimental results than TENDL-2015 for all target nuclei, although the shape of the broad peak around 50 MeV was not satisfactorily reproduced by the PHITS calculation.
Araki, Shohei*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Kitajima, Mizuki*; Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Nakano, Keita*; Kin, Tadahiro*; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Satoh, Daiki; Hagiwara, Masayuki*; Yashima, Hiroshi*; et al.
JAEA-Conf 2016-004, p.159 - 164, 2016/09
Neutron production data from materials such as Li, Be and C bombarded by deuteron are required for design such as the facility of radiation damage for fusion materials and boron neutron capture therapy. However, there is little measurement of double differential neutron production cross sections (DDXs). Therefore, we have planned a series of DDXs measurements at incident energies more than 100 MeV in the Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University. The experiment was carried out with a carbon target at the neutron Time of Flight (TOF) course in RCNP. Emitted neutrons were detected by three different-size NE213 liquid organic scintillators (5.08 cm, 12.7 cm and 25.4 cm in dimeter and thickness) located at a distance of 7 m, 24 m and 74 m respectively. The neutron detection efficiencies of the detectors were calculated by SCINFUL-QMD code. It turned out that the calculation data fr carbon does not reproduce the experimental data satisfactorily well.
Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Araki, Shohei*; Nakano, Keita*; Kawase, Shoichiro*; Kin, Tadahiro*; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Satoh, Daiki; Hagiwara, Masayuki*; Yashima, Hiroshi*; et al.
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The neutron source based on the high power deuteron accelerator has been considered to be used in application fields such as Long Lived Fission Product (LLFP) nuclear transmutation. For the design of accelerator and neutron source, we measured neutron production double differential cross sections for 200 MeV deuteron incident reactions on targets with wide range of atomic number in the Research Center of Nuclear Physics, Osaka University. In experiments, time-of-flight method with liquid organic scintillator EJ301 was applied to measure neutron energies. As a result, the structure of neutron cross section at forward angle had a broad peak at around 100 MeV. In this presentation, the experimental data including previous data for deuteron incident reaction with energies below 200 MeV will be compared with results calculated by codes, and we will discuss about the dependency of incident energies to neutron productions.
Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Nakayama, Shinsuke; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Araki, Shohei*; Iwamoto, Osamu; Ogata, Kazuyuki*
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102-MeV deuteron-induced neutron production reactions on Li, Be, C, Al, Cu, Nb are calculated with DEURACS, which is a code system dedicated to deuteron-induced reactions. The calculation results are compared with the latest experimental data and the applicability of DEURACS to deuteron-induced neutron production reactions at around 100 MeV are investigated. As a result, the calculation using DEURACS reproduced experimental double-differential neutron production cross sections and its applicability to the reactions are validated.
Sadamatsu, Hiroki*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Nakano, Keita*; Kawase, Shoichiro*; Kin, Tadahiro*; Araki, Shohei*; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Satoh, Daiki; Hagiwara, Masayuki*; Yashima, Hiroshi*; et al.
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Recently, the deuteron incident reaction on light nuclear targets is expected to be used as accelerator-based neutron sources for nuclear transmutation of Long-Lived Fission Products (LLFP). However, there is no experimental data to validate theoretical models at an incident energy over 102 MeV. In this work, double-differential neutron production cross sections for deuteron-induced reactions on lithium at an incident energy of 200 MeV were measured at the Research Center of Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University. Measurements were carried out at six positions every five degrees between 0 and 25 to the beam direction, and neutron energies were determined by a time of flight method. To obtain data with wide neutron energy range, two EJ301 liquid organic scintillators of different size were set. As a result, we found that experimental neutron energy spectra have a broad energy peak structure with the strong forward emission due to the deuteron break-up reaction.