Neutron facility at high intensity proton accelerator project

Oyama, Yukio; Ikeda, Yujiro

Hoshasen To Sangyo, (107), p.45 - 51, 2005/09

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/40006907687

JAERI and KEK are jointly conducting high intensity proton accelerator project (J-PARC). The outline of the J-PARC project and a design concept of the neutron source facility at J-PARC are described in detail.

Neutronic study on coupled hydrogen moderator for J-PARC spallation neutron source

Kai, Tetsuya; Harada, Masahide; Teshigawara, Makoto; Watanabe, Noboru; Ikeda, Yujiro

Proceedings of ICANS-XVI, Volume 3, p.657 - 666, 2003/07

Neutronic design studies were carried out on the J-PARC coupled H moderator. The highest time- and energy- integrated intensity below 15 meV, pulse peak intensity at 2 meV and 10 meV, were given by 100% para-H moderators, but the optimal moderator thickness was different for each: more than 220 mm, about 120 mm and 80 mm, respectively. Finally, we concluded 140 mm was the optimal thickness for the 100% para-H coupled moderator. Cold neutron distributions on the moderator viewed surface were found to exhibit an intensity-enhanced region at a picture frame part near premoderator. This rather peculiar distribution suggested that the moderator and the viewed surface must be designed so as to take the brighter region near premoderator in use. The intensity decreases along with beam-extraction angle to the normal direction down to about 70% at 25.4. Then, we propose a cylindrical shape coupled moderator which brings about a slight intensity decrease for 0 but a increase in the averaged intensity over the angles of interest.

Experimental results obtained with the simulated cold moderator system; System characteristics and technical issues

Aso, Tomokazu; Kaminaga, Masanori; Haga, Katsuhiro; Kinoshita, Hidetaka; Takahashi, Toshio*; Hino, Ryutaro

JAERI-Tech 2002-096, 76 Pages, 2002/12

JAERI-Tech-2002-096.pdf:7.2MB

The JAERI and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization have been developing a Mega-Watt scale spallation target system. In the system, neutrons generated in a target are sorted out their energy to the proper values in liquid-hydrogen moderators. Then, the liquid-hydrogen is forced to circulate in order to suppress hydrogen temperature increase. In the operation of moderators, it is very important to establish a safety protection system against emergency shutdown of the accelerator or accidents of the cold moderator system. In order to obtain a technical data for design and safety review of the liquid-hydrogen system, we have fabricated an experimental apparatus simulated the cold moderator system using liquid nitrogen (max. 1.5MPa, mini. 77K) instead of liquid hydrogen. The experiments on a controllability of the system were carried out to investigate dynamic characteristics of the system. This report presents the experimental results and technical issues for the construction of a practical liquid-hydrogen moderator system of the Mega-Watt scale target system.

A Conceptual design study of target-moderator-reflector system for JAERI 5MW spallation source

Watanabe, Noboru*; Teshigawara, Makoto*; Takada, Hiroshi; Nakashima, Hiroshi; Oyama, Yukio; *; Kai, Tetsuya; Ikeda, Yujiro; Kosako, Kazuaki*

Proc. of 14th Meeting of the Int. Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources (ICANS-14), 2, p.728 - 742, 1998/00

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