Radiation transport calculations for the new ion beam laboratory at Sandia National Laboratory

A new Ion Beam Laboratory is currently under construction at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Three existing accelerators will be moved to the Ion Beam Laboratory, and two more will be purchased to replace existing systems. The Ion Beam Laboratory will have extensive radiation shielding that will enable a number of new experiments that will be discussed in this paper. This paper also provides the details of extensive radiation transport calculations that were used to determine the thickness and height of the shield walls. (Author)