Past, Present and Future of the n TOF Facility at CERN

Autor(en)

E Chiaveri, Samuel Andriamonje, M Calviani, Vassilis Vlachoudis, Markus Brugger, Paolo Cennini, Fabio Cerutti, M. Chin, Arnaud Ferrari, Yacine Kadi, Elias Lebbos, Roberto Losito, Carlos Guerrero, Vicente Bécares, Daniel Cano Ott, Manuel Fernández-Ordóñez, E Gonzalez - Romero, Trinitario Martinez, Emilio Mendoza, M del Carmen Ovejero, Eric Berthoumieux, Frank Gunsing, J Andrzejewski, J Marganiec, Jan Perkowski, Ludmila Audouin, B Berthier, Laurent Tassan-Got, Frantisek Becvar, M Krticka, Fabio Belloni, P M Milazzo, Francisco Calvino, M. Belén Gómez Hornillo, C. Carrapico, Guillem Cortes, Isabel Maria Ferro Goncalves, Raúl Sarmento, Pedro Vaz, N Colonna, S Marrone, Moinul Haque Meaze, Giuseppe Tagliente, Vincenzo Variale, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Manuel Luis Lozano Leyva, Javier Praena, Jose Manuel Quesada Molina, Iris Dillmann, César Domingo-Pardo, Michael Heil, Ralf Plag, Rene Reifarth, I Duran, Carlos Paradela, Diego Tarrio, S. Ganesan, Giuseppe Giubrone, Jose Luis Tain Enriquez, F Gramegna, P F Mastinu, Sotirios Harrisopulos, K G Ioannides, Dimitrios Karadimos, E Jericha, Helmut Leeb, C. Weiß, Franz Käppeler, Claudia Lederer, Andreas Pavlik, Anton Wallner, Cristian Massimi, Gianni Vannini, Alberto Mengoni, A Ventura, Marita Mosconi, R Nolte, Carlo Rubbia, R Vlastou, Zdenek Vykydal

Abstrakt

The n_TOF spallation neutron facility is operating at CERN since 2001. Neutrons are produced with a very wide energy range, from thermal up to 1 GeV and with a very high instantaneous flux (10(5)n/cm(2)/pulse at 200 m from target) thanks to the high intensity (7 x 10(12) protons/pulse) and low repetition rate of the Proton Synchrotron (PS) which is delivering protons to a lead spallation target. The experimental area is located at 200 m from the target, resulting in a very good energy resolution and beam quality thanks to the adoption of an optimal collimation system. At the end of 2008 the n_TOF facility has resumed operation after a halt of 3 years due to technical issues. This contribution will outline the main physics results obtained by the facility since its inception in 1999, and show the importance of the measured nuclear data in the field of Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Technology. Then it will present the future perspectives of the facility, aiming mainly in the direction of measuring highly radioactive samples, for which the facility has unique capabilities, with a lower background.

Organisation(en)

Isotopenphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológica, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), University of Lodz, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPN), Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Charles University Prague, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidad de Sevilla, Technische Universität München, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Universitat de València, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos (NCSR), University of Ioannina, Technische Universität Wien, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU)

Journal

Journal of the Korean Physical Society

Band

59

Seiten

1620-1623

Anzahl der Seiten

4

ISSN

0374-4884

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.59.1620

Publikationsdatum

2011

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103005 Atomphysik, 203016 Messtechnik

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/past-present-and-future-of-the-n-tof-facility-at-cern(7eae91db-13a9-4da7-b852-19caeb30c9aa).html