Published February 2007 | Version v1
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SPES-BNCT Project Beam Shaping Assembly. State of the Art

Creators

  • 1. Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnologicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), La Habana (CUBA)

Description

The SPES-BNCT project will exploit the intense proton beam provided by the RFQ (30mA, 5MeV), currently under construction at LNL, to yield a neutron source using the 9Be(p,xn) nuclear reaction. The goal is to setup an accelerator-driven, thermal neutron beam facility, aimed at the Boron Neutron Capture experimental treatment of extended shallow skin melanoma. The neutron energy spectrum is shifted with a beam shaping assembly (BSA) surrounding the target. This device is fully designed with the Monte Carlo simulation code MCNPX, with the purpose of maximizing the thermal neutron component of the beam and focusing it on the irradiation area. (Author)

Part of:
Proceedings of XI Workshop on Nuclear Physics WONP 2007

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
InSTEC
Imprint Place
La Habana (Cuba)
ISBN
959-7136-46-5
Imprint Title
Proceedings of XI Workshop on Nuclear Physics
Imprint Pagination
1 CD-ROM
Journal Page Range
p. 22

Conference

Title
11. Workshop on Nuclear Physics
Acronym
WONP 2007
Dates
5-8 Feb 2007
Place
La Habana (Cuba)

INIS

Country of Publication
Cuba
Country of Input or Organization
Cuba
INIS RN
39118492
Subject category
S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
BEAM SHAPING; BORON; MELANOMAS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON SOURCES; PROTON BEAMS; THERMAL NEUTRONS
Descriptors DEC
BARYONS; BEAMS; CALCULATION METHODS; CARCINOMAS; DISEASES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; EPITHELIOMAS; FERMIONS; HADRONS; NEOPLASMS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEON BEAMS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE SOURCES; RADIATION SOURCES; SEMIMETALS

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