IPAC2016 - List of Authors (Cummings, M.A.C.)

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TUPMB026	Magnet System for a Compact Microtron	1164
	S.A. Kahn, R.J. Abrams, M.A.C. Cummings, R.P. Johnson, G.M. Kazakevich Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Funded by DOE SBIR grant DE-SC0013795 A compact microtron can be an effective gamma source that can be transported to locations outside the laboratory. As part of a Phase I project we have studied a portable microtron that can accelerate electrons with energies of 6 MeV and above as a source for gamma and neutron production. The mass of the magnet is a significant contribution to the overall mass of the system. This paper will discuss conceptual designs for both permanent magnet and electromagnet systems. The choice of mictrotron RF frequency range is determined by the application requirements. The RF frequency influences the size of the microtron magnet and consequently its weight. We have looked at how the design would vary with the different frequency configurations.
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TUPMY009	MuSim, a Graphical User Interface for Multiple Simulation Programs	1559
	T.J. Roberts, M.A.C. Cummings, R.P. Johnson Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA D.V. Neuffer Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	MuSim is a new user-friendly program designed to interface to many different particle simulation codes, regardless of their data formats or geometry descriptions. It presents the user with a compelling graphical user interface that includes a flexible 3-D view of the simulated world plus powerful editing and drag-and-drop capabilities. All aspects of the design can be parametrized so that parameter scans and optimizations are easy. It is simple to create plots and display events in the 3-D viewer (with a slider to vary the transparency of solids), allowing for an effortless comparison of different simulation codes. Simulation codes: G4beamline, MAD-X, and MCNP; more coming. Many accelerator design tools and beam optics codes were written long ago, with primitive user interfaces by today's standards. MuSim is specifically designed to make it easy to interface to such codes, providing a common user experience for all, and permitting the construction and exploration of models with very little overhead. For today's technology-driven students, graphical interfaces meet their expectations far better than text-based tools, and education in accelerator physics is one of our primary goals.
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TUPOY029	Gem*Star Consortium Proposal to Build a Demonstration Accelerator Driven System	1973
	R.P. Johnson, R.J. Abrams, M.A.C. Cummings, T.J. Roberts Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA R.B. Vogelaar Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
	The GEMSTAR Consortium of four companies, two universities, and two US national laboratories has formed MuSTAR, a new company, to fund and build a profitable pilot plant to demonstrate the advantages of subcritical molten-salt-fueled nuclear reactors driven by superconducting RF proton linacs. The GEMSTAR multipurpose reactor design features new accelerator power capabilities, an internal spallation neutron target, and high temperature molten salt fuel with continuous purging of volatile radioactive fission products such that the reactor contains less than a critical mass and almost a million times fewer volatile radioactive fission products than conventional reactors. GEMSTAR is a reactor that without redesign will burn spent nuclear fuel (SNF), natural uranium, thorium, or surplus weapons material. It will operate without the need for a critical core, fuel enrichment, or reprocessing, making it an excellent design overall, and a strong candidate for export. We describe the design and plans for funding a pilot plant that could profitably dispose of excess weapons-grade plutonium.
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TUPOY043	GEM*STAR Accelerator-Driven Subcritical System for Improved Safety, Waste Management, and Plutonium Disposition	1998
	M.A.C. Cummings, R.P. Johnson, T.J. Roberts Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
	Operation of high-power SRF particle accelerators at two US national laboratories allows us to consider a less-expensive nuclear reactor that operates without the need for a critical core, fuel enrichment, or reprocessing. A multipurpose reactor design that takes advantage of this new accelerator capability includes an internal spallation neutron target and high-temperature molten-salt fuel with continuous purging of volatile radioactive fission products. The reactor contains less than a critical mass and almost a million times fewer volatile radioactive fission products than conventional reactors like those at Fukushima. We describe GEMSTAR , a reactor that without redesign will burn spent nuclear fuel, natural uranium, thorium, or surplus weapons material. A first application is to burn 34 tonnes of excess weapons grade plutonium as an important step in nuclear disarmament under the 2000 Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement **. The process heat generated by this W-Pu can be used for the Fischer-Tropsch conversion of natural gas and renewable carbon into 42 billion gallons of low-CO2-footprint, drop-in, synthetic diesel fuel for the DOD.
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THPMR052	Compact, Microtron-Based Gamma Source	3522
	R.J. Abrams, M.A.C. Cummings, R.P. Johnson, S.A. Kahn, G.M. Kazakevich Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
	Funding: This work was supported U.S. DOE SBIR Grant DE-SC0013795. The conceptual design of a prototype S-band pulsed, 9.5 MeV compact microtron with type-II injection is described. Estimates of parameters such as beam current and cathode lifetime, and comparisons with X-band and C-band parameters are presented. The electron beam can be extracted at various energies up to 9.5 MeV. Estimated yields of gammas produced at 6.5 MeV operation and estimated yields of gammas and neutrons produced at 9.5 MeV are presented.
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TUPOY050	Microtron-based Intense Neutron Source	2014
	G.M. Kazakevich, R.J. Abrams, R.P. Johnson, S.A. Kahn Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA M.A.C. Cummings Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Funded by DOE SBIR grant DE-SC0013795 An L-Band 7.7-9.8 MeV CW relatively inexpensive microtron with a warm accelerating cavity for multi-purpose applications in nuclear medicine and radiation industry is proposed. The microtron with a photo-neutron converter is intended to serve as an intense source of photo-neutrons with yield up to 4·10¹² n/s for nuclear medicine or/and producing of short lived isotopes, as a source of gamma-radiation with dose rates up to 130 kR/min·m with a heavy bremsstrahlung target, and as a source of the electron beam with total energy of 9.8 MeV at the average current up to 4.4 mA for various radiation treatments.
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Magnet System for a Compact Microtron

1164

S.A. Kahn, R.J. Abrams, M.A.C. Cummings, R.P. Johnson, G.M. Kazakevich
Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA

Funding: Funded by DOE SBIR grant DE-SC0013795
A compact microtron can be an effective gamma source that can be transported to locations outside the laboratory. As part of a Phase I project we have studied a portable microtron that can accelerate electrons with energies of 6 MeV and above as a source for gamma and neutron production. The mass of the magnet is a significant contribution to the overall mass of the system. This paper will discuss conceptual designs for both permanent magnet and electromagnet systems. The choice of mictrotron RF frequency range is determined by the application requirements. The RF frequency influences the size of the microtron magnet and consequently its weight. We have looked at how the design would vary with the different frequency configurations.

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TUPMY009

MuSim, a Graphical User Interface for Multiple Simulation Programs

1559

T.J. Roberts, M.A.C. Cummings, R.P. Johnson
Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
D.V. Neuffer
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

MuSim is a new user-friendly program designed to interface to many different particle simulation codes, regardless of their data formats or geometry descriptions. It presents the user with a compelling graphical user interface that includes a flexible 3-D view of the simulated world plus powerful editing and drag-and-drop capabilities. All aspects of the design can be parametrized so that parameter scans and optimizations are easy. It is simple to create plots and display events in the 3-D viewer (with a slider to vary the transparency of solids), allowing for an effortless comparison of different simulation codes. Simulation codes: G4beamline, MAD-X, and MCNP; more coming. Many accelerator design tools and beam optics codes were written long ago, with primitive user interfaces by today's standards. MuSim is specifically designed to make it easy to interface to such codes, providing a common user experience for all, and permitting the construction and exploration of models with very little overhead. For today's technology-driven students, graphical interfaces meet their expectations far better than text-based tools, and education in accelerator physics is one of our primary goals.

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TUPOY029

Gem*Star Consortium Proposal to Build a Demonstration Accelerator Driven System

1973

R.P. Johnson, R.J. Abrams, M.A.C. Cummings, T.J. Roberts
Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
R.B. Vogelaar
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

The GEM*STAR Consortium of four companies, two universities, and two US national laboratories has formed Mu*STAR, a new company, to fund and build a profitable pilot plant to demonstrate the advantages of subcritical molten-salt-fueled nuclear reactors driven by superconducting RF proton linacs. The GEM*STAR multipurpose reactor design features new accelerator power capabilities, an internal spallation neutron target, and high temperature molten salt fuel with continuous purging of volatile radioactive fission products such that the reactor contains less than a critical mass and almost a million times fewer volatile radioactive fission products than conventional reactors. GEM*STAR is a reactor that without redesign will burn spent nuclear fuel (SNF), natural uranium, thorium, or surplus weapons material. It will operate without the need for a critical core, fuel enrichment, or reprocessing, making it an excellent design overall, and a strong candidate for export. We describe the design and plans for funding a pilot plant that could profitably dispose of excess weapons-grade plutonium.

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TUPOY043

GEM*STAR Accelerator-Driven Subcritical System for Improved Safety, Waste Management, and Plutonium Disposition

1998

M.A.C. Cummings, R.P. Johnson, T.J. Roberts
Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA

Operation of high-power SRF particle accelerators at two US national laboratories allows us to consider a less-expensive nuclear reactor that operates without the need for a critical core, fuel enrichment, or reprocessing. A multipurpose reactor design that takes advantage of this new accelerator capability includes an internal spallation neutron target and high-temperature molten-salt fuel with continuous purging of volatile radioactive fission products. The reactor contains less than a critical mass and almost a million times fewer volatile radioactive fission products than conventional reactors like those at Fukushima. We describe GEMSTAR , a reactor that without redesign will burn spent nuclear fuel, natural uranium, thorium, or surplus weapons material. A first application is to burn 34 tonnes of excess weapons grade plutonium as an important step in nuclear disarmament under the 2000 Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement **. The process heat generated by this W-Pu can be used for the Fischer-Tropsch conversion of natural gas and renewable carbon into 42 billion gallons of low-CO2-footprint, drop-in, synthetic diesel fuel for the DOD.

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THPMR052

Compact, Microtron-Based Gamma Source

3522

R.J. Abrams, M.A.C. Cummings, R.P. Johnson, S.A. Kahn, G.M. Kazakevich
Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA

Funding: This work was supported U.S. DOE SBIR Grant DE-SC0013795.
The conceptual design of a prototype S-band pulsed, 9.5 MeV compact microtron with type-II injection is described. Estimates of parameters such as beam current and cathode lifetime, and comparisons with X-band and C-band parameters are presented. The electron beam can be extracted at various energies up to 9.5 MeV. Estimated yields of gammas produced at 6.5 MeV operation and estimated yields of gammas and neutrons produced at 9.5 MeV are presented.

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TUPOY050

Microtron-based Intense Neutron Source

2014

G.M. Kazakevich, R.J. Abrams, R.P. Johnson, S.A. Kahn
Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
M.A.C. Cummings
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

Funding: Funded by DOE SBIR grant DE-SC0013795
An L-Band 7.7-9.8 MeV CW relatively inexpensive microtron with a warm accelerating cavity for multi-purpose applications in nuclear medicine and radiation industry is proposed. The microtron with a photo-neutron converter is intended to serve as an intense source of photo-neutrons with yield up to 4·10¹² n/s for nuclear medicine or/and producing of short lived isotopes, as a source of gamma-radiation with dose rates up to 130 kR/min·m with a heavy bremsstrahlung target, and as a source of the electron beam with total energy of 9.8 MeV at the average current up to 4.4 mA for various radiation treatments.

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