分类: 核科学技术 >> 辐射物理与技术 提交时间: 2024-04-11
摘要: Aluminum is the primary structural material in nuclear engineering, and its cross-section induced by 14 MeV neutrons is of great significance. To address the issue of insufficient accuracy for the 27Al(n,2n)26Al reaction cross-section, the activation method and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique were used to determine the 27Al(n,2n)26Al cross-section, which could be used as a D-T plasma ion temperature monitor in fusion reactors. At the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), neutron activation was performed using a K-400 neutron generator produced by the T(d,n)4He reaction. The 26Al/27Al isotope ratios were measured using the newly installed GYIG 1 MV AMS at the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The neutron flux was monitored by measuring the activity of 92mNb produced by the 93Nb(n,2n)92mNb reaction. The measured results were compared with available data in the experimental nuclear reaction database, and the measured values showed a reasonable degree of consistency with partially available literature data. Thenewly acquired cross-sectional data at 12 neutron energy points through systematic measurements clarified the divergence, which has two different growth trends from the existing experimental values. The obtained results are also compared with the corresponding evaluated database, and the newly calculated excitation functions with TALYS-1.95 and EMPIRE-3.2 codes, the agreement with CENDL-3.2, TENDL-2021 and EMPIRE-3.2 results are generally acceptable. A substantial improvement in the knowledge of the 27Al(n,2n)26Al reaction excitation function was obtained in the present work, which will lay the foundation for the diagnosis of the fusion ion temperature, testing of the nuclear physics model, and evaluation of nuclear data, etc.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2024-01-05
摘要: A benchmark experiment on 238U slab samples was conducted using a deuteriumtritium neutron source at the China Institute of Atomic Energy. The leakage neutron spectra within energy levels of 0.816 MeV at 60 and 120 were measured using the time-of-flight method. The samples were prepared as rectangular slabs with a 30 cm square base and thicknesses of 3, 6, and 9 cm. The leakage neutron spectra were also calculated using the MCNP-4C program based on the latest evaluated files of 238U evaluated neutron data from CENDL-3.2, ENDF/B-VIII.0, JENDL-5.0, and JEFF-3.3. Based on the comparison, the deficiencies and improvements in 238U evaluated nuclear data were analyzed. The results showed the following. (1) The calculated results for CENDL-3.2 significantly overestimated the measurements in the energy interval of elastic scattering at 60 and 120. (2) The calculated results of CENDL-3.2 overestimated the measurements in the energy interval of inelastic scattering at 120. (3) The calculated results for CENDL-3.2 significantly overestimated the measurements in the 38.5MeV energy interval at 60 and 120. (4) The calculated results with JENDL-5.0 were generally consistent with the measurement results.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核科学与技术 提交时间: 2023-10-09
摘要: Iron is commonly used as a structural and shielding material in nuclear devices. The accuracy of its nuclear data is critical for the design of nuclear devices. The evaluation data of 56Fe isotopes in the latest version of the CENDL-3.2 library from China was significantly updated. This new data must be tested before it can be used. To test the reliability of this data and assess the shielding effect, a shielding benchmark experiment was conducted with natural Fe spherical samples using a pulsed deuterium- tritium neutron source at the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE). The leakage neutron spectra from the natural spherical iron samples with different thicknesses (4.5, 7.5, and 12 cm) were measured between 0.8-16 MeV after interacting with 14 MeV neutrons using the time-of-flight method. The simulation results were obtained by Monte Carlo simulations by employing the Fe data from the CENDL-3.2, ENDF/B-VIII.0, and JEDNL-5.0 libraries. The measured and simulated leakage neutron spectra and penetration rates were compared, demonstrating that the CENDL-3.2 library performs sufficiently overall. The simulation results of the other two libraries were underestimated for scattering at the continuum energy level.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 分类: 物理学 >> 交叉学科物理及相关领域的科学与技术 提交时间: 2023-06-20
摘要: The Shanghai laser electron gamma source (SLEGS) is a powerful tool for exploring photonuclear physics, such as giant dipole resonance (GDR) and pygmy dipole resonance, which are the main mechanisms of collective nuclear motion. The goal of the SLEGS neutron time-of-fight (TOF) spectrometer is to measure GDR and specifc nuclear structures in the energy region above the neutron threshold. The SLEGS TOF spectrometer was designed to hold 20 sets of EJ301 and LaBr3 detectors. Geant4 was used to simulate the efciency of each detector and the entire spectrometer, which provides a reference for the selection of detectors and layout of the SLEGS TOF spectrometer. Under the events of 208Pb, implementations of coincidence and time-of-fight technology for complex experiments are available; thus, y and neutron decay events can be separated. The performance of SLEGS TOF spectrometer was systematically evaluated using ofine experiments, in which the time resolution reached approximately 0.9ns.