کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5493306 1526279 2017 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Calculations to support JET neutron yield calibration: Modelling of neutron emission from a compact DT neutron generator
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موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم ابزار دقیق
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Calculations to support JET neutron yield calibration: Modelling of neutron emission from a compact DT neutron generator
چکیده انگلیسی
At the Joint European Torus (JET) the ex-vessel fission chambers and in-vessel activation detectors are used as the neutron production rate and neutron yield monitors respectively. In order to ensure that these detectors produce accurate measurements they need to be experimentally calibrated. A new calibration of neutron detectors to 14 MeV neutrons, resulting from deuterium-tritium (DT) plasmas, is planned at JET using a compact accelerator based neutron generator (NG) in which a D/T beam impinges on a solid target containing T/D, producing neutrons by DT fusion reactions. This paper presents the analysis that was performed to model the neutron source characteristics in terms of energy spectrum, angle-energy distribution and the effect of the neutron generator geometry. Different codes capable of simulating the accelerator based DT neutron sources are compared and sensitivities to uncertainties in the generator's internal structure analysed. The analysis was performed to support preparation to the experimental measurements performed to characterize the NG as a calibration source. Further extensive neutronics analyses, performed with this model of the NG, will be needed to support the neutron calibration experiments and take into account various differences between the calibration experiment and experiments using the plasma as a source of neutrons.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment - Volume 847, 1 March 2017, Pages 199-204
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