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RIS citation export for THPAL117: Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF

TY - CONF
AU - Egoriti, L.
AU - Bricault, P.G.
AU - Day Goodacre, T.
AU - Delonca, M.
AU - Dierckx, M.
AU - Dos Santos Augusto, R.M.
AU - Gottberg, A.
AU - Houngbo, D.
AU - Popescu, L.
AU - Ramos, J.P.
AU - Rothe, S.
AU - Stora, T.
ED - Koscielniak, Shane
ED - Satogata, Todd
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Thomson, Jana
TI - Development of a Proton-to-Neutron Converter for Radioisotope Production at ISAC-TRIUMF
J2 - Proc. of IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 29-May 4, 2018
C1 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 9
LA - english
AB - At ISAC-TRIUMF, a 500 MeV proton beam is impinged upon thick targets to induce nuclear reactions to pro-duce reaction products that are delivered as a Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) to experiments. Uranium carbide is among the most commonly used target materials which produces a vast radionuclide inventory coming from both spallation and fission- events. This can also represent a major limitation for the successful delivery of certain RIBs to experiments since, for a given mass, many isobar-ic isotopes are to be filtered by the dipole mass separator. These contaminants can exceed the yield of the isotope of interest by orders of magnitude, often causing a significant reduction in the sensitivity of experiments or even making them impossible. The design of a 50 kW proton-to-neutron (p2n) converter-target is ongoing to enhance the production of neutron-rich nuclei while significantly reducing the rate of neutron-deficient contaminants. The converter is made out of a bulk tungsten block which converts proton beams into neutrons through spallation. The neutrons, in turn, induce pure fission in an upstream UCx target. The present target design and the service infrastructure needed for its operation will be discussed in this paper.
PB - JACoW Publishing
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 3917
EP - 3920
KW - target
KW - proton
KW - neutron
KW - ISAC
KW - TRIUMF
DA - 2018/06
PY - 2018
SN - 978-3-95450-184-7
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-THPAL117
UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2018/papers/thpal117.pdf
ER -