Neutron Cross Sections Measurements at the Spallation Neutron Source

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Oct 2001

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American Physical Society, First Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physicists of the American and Japanese Physical Societies October

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Nuclear Physics

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With the prospect of construction of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at ORNL, and the fantastic high neutron flux, new, up to now impossible, experiments seem to be feasible in the fields of applied nuclear physics and astrophysics. These experiments will supply crucial neutron-induced cross section data for radioactive materials (fission products) and radionuclides, which are badly needed by many applied physics programs. The SNS will be uniquely suited for measuring the cross sections of interest to nuclear criticality safety, accelerator transmutation of nuclear waste, and heavy element nucleosynthesis for astrophysics. Using the high neutron flux at the SNS will allow these measurements to be made with samples about 40 times smaller than at the next best facility. The large reduction in sample size at the SNS will result in orders of magnitude reduction in background from the radioactive samples and make them much easier to produce; hence, a much wider range of samples will be accessible for measurement at the SNS than at any other facility. We will discuss some of the technical approaches.

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