Production and release of ISOL beams from molten fluoride salt targets
Creators
- 1. European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN, 1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
- 2. IFIMUP and IN – Institut of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto (Portugal)
- 3. Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Comenius University, Mlynska dolina F1, SK-842 15 Bratislava (Slovakia)
- 4. Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie – LPSC, 53 Rue des Martyrs, 38026 Grenoble Cedex (France)
- 5. Section de Physique, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4 (Switzerland)
- 6. IRTES-LERMPS, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, 90010 Belfort Cedex (France)
- 7. IRTES-M3M, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, 90010 Belfort Cedex (France)
- 8. Instituto de Estructura de la Materia CSIC, E28006 Madrid (Spain)
- 9. Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Survontie 9, Jyväskylä FI-40014 (Finland)
- 10. Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering, University of Aveiro, CICECO, 3810-193 Aveiro (Portugal)
Description
In the framework of the Beta Beams project, a molten fluoride target has been proposed for the production of the required 101318Ne/s. The production and extraction of such rates are predicted to be possible on a circulating molten salt with 160 MeV proton beams at close to 1 MW power. As a most important step to validate the concept, a prototype has been designed and investigated at CERN-ISOLDE using a static target unit. The target material consisted of a binary fluoride system, NaF:LiF (39:61 mol.%), with melting point at 649 °C. The production of Ne beams has been monitored as a function of the target temperature and proton beam intensity. The prototype development and the results of the first online tests with 1.4 GeV proton beam are presented in this paper
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2014.03.003Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nimb.2014.03.003;
- PII
- S0168-583X(14)00399-1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
- Journal Volume
- 329
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1-5
- ISSN
- 0168-583X
- CODEN
- NIMBEU
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 46023630
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- GEV RANGE; ISOTOPE SEPARATORS; LITHIUM FLUORIDES; MELTING POINTS; MEV RANGE; MOLTEN SALTS; PROTON BEAMS; SODIUM FLUORIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; BEAMS; ENERGY RANGE; EQUIPMENT; FLUORIDES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM HALIDES; NUCLEON BEAMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SALTS; SEPARATION EQUIPMENT; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM HALIDES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE
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- Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.