LICORNE: A new and unique facility for producing intense, kinematically focused neutron beams at the IPN Orsay
LICORNE is a new neutron source recently installed at the tandem accelerator of the Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay, where a Li7-beam is used to bombard a hydrogen-containing target to produce an intense forward-directed neutron beam. The directionality of the beam, which is the unique characteristic of LICORNE, will permit the installation of -ray detectors dedicated to the investigation of fission fragment de-excitation which are unimpeded by neutrons from the source. A first experimental program will focus on the measurement of prompt -ray emission in the neutron-induced fission of fertile and fissile isotopes at incident neutron energies relevant for the core design of Generation-IV nuclear reactors. Other potential uses of the LICORNE facility for both fundamental and applied physics research are also presented.
WILSON J.;
LEBOIS M.;
HALIPRE P.;
LENIAU B.;
MATEA I.;
VERNEY D.;
OBERSTEDT Stephan;
BILLNERT Robert;
OBERSTEDT Andreas;
GEORGIEV G.;
LJUNGVALL J.;
2014-01-31
EDP Sciences
JRC88586
2100-014X,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20136205006,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC88586,
10.1051/epjconf/20136205006,
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