Conveners
Accelerator: Accelerator Progress
- Sarah Cousineau (Research Accelerator Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
On the site of the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden, great progresses have been made in all areas of its linac construction. Highlights include that installations of the radio frequency quadrupole and the following medium energy beam transport are being completed, assembly of the first drift tube linac tank is also being completing, the cryomodule test-stand is about to start...
The ISIS upgrade project is tasks with delivering a 1.25 MW, 1.2 GeV proton beam at 50 Hz shared between two target stations. Accelerator studies include conventional rapid cycling synchrotrons (RCS), accumulator rings and FFA’s. This paper reviews the current status of the conventional RCS and Accumulator rings and includes lattice designs and injection studies for both H- and direct...
RF-driven H- ion sources are becoming the preferred technology for driving high power accelerators. The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) employs an RF-driven, multicusp H- ion source. This type of source was conceptualized and developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) initially for the Superconducting Super Collider project and then for...
NEPIR (Neutron and Proton Irradiation facility) is a project devoted to create a new irradiation facility at INFN Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL) in Italy. This contribution focuses on the most recent progresses of the project, that is in an advanced design phase and partially founded.
The facility will exploit the LNL 30-70 MeV, high current proton cyclotron of the SPES project to feed...
After the 2009 $^{99m}$Tc global crisis, the scientific community is in search of alternative routes for producing $^{99}$Mo, the precursor of $^{99m}$Tc, presently produced at fission research reactors using U-235-containing targets.
International organizations such as IAEA, NEA and OECD have indicated a series of possible alternatives, based on particles accelerators as well as fast neutron...
