Light ion beams for energy production in accelerator driven systems

Jul 7, 2017, 3:45 PM
15m
LIT Conference Hall

LIT Conference Hall

Speaker

Dr Mihaela Paraipan (Institute of Space Science Bucharest-Magurele Romania, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna Russia)

Description

A comparative study of the energy efficiency of proton beams with an energy from 0.5 GeV to 4 GeV and light ion beams (7Li, 9Be, 11B, and 12C) with energies from 0.25 AGeV to 1 AGeV in natural and enriched quasi-infinite U target is presented. The numerical results on the particle transport and interaction are obtained using the code Geant4. The following target optimization issues are addressed: the beam window dimensions, the coolant, the possibility to use a core from low Z materials. The best solution for ADS from the point of view of the energy gain and miniaturization is obtained for 7Li or 9Be beam with an energy of 0.35 – 0.4 AGeV and a target with Be core. 1. C. Rubbia et al., ” An Energy Amplifier for cleaner and inexhaustible nuclear energy production driven by a particle beam accelerator”. CERN/AT/93-47, November 1993 2. Kairat Ismailov, Masaki Saito, Hiroshi Sagara, Kenji Nishihara,” Feasibility of uranium spallation target in accelerator-driven system”, Progress in Nuclear Energy 53 (2011) 925-929 3 Кошкарев Д. Г., Соболевский Н. М., Бархударян А. В., "Использование электроядерного метода в энергетике ", Атомная Энергия (2008), т. 105, вып. 3 4. Baldin A. A., Berlev A. I., Paraipan M., Tyutyunikov S. I., Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters №1_173

Primary author

Dr Mihaela Paraipan (Institute of Space Science Bucharest-Magurele Romania, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna Russia)

Co-authors

Prof. Anton Baldin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna Russia, Institute for Advanced Studies "OMEGA", Dubna, Russia) Mrs Elina Baldina (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna Russia, Institute for Advanced Studies "OMEGA", Dubna, Russia) Prof. Serguey Tyutyunnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna Russia)

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