Linear accelerator for tritium production
Abstract
For many years now, Los Alamos National Laboratory has been working to develop a conceptual design of a facility for accelerator production of tritium (APT). The APT accelerator will produce high energy protons which will bombard a heavy metal target, resulting in the production of large numbers of spallation neutrons. These neutrons will be captured by a low-{ital Z} target to produce tritium. This paper describes the latest design of a room-temperature, 1.0 GeV, 100 mA, cw proton accelerator for tritium production. The potential advantages of using superconducting cavities in the high-energy section of the linac are also discussed and a comparison is made with the baseline room-temperature accelerator. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}
- Authors:
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- Accelerator Operations and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 383686
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9510361-
Journal ID: APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 96:026272
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 377; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: Space charged dominated beams and applications of high brightness beams, Bloomington, IN (United States), 13-15 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; 07 ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCE TECHNOLOGY; TRITIUM PRODUCTION REACTORS; DESIGN; LAMPF LINAC; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION; PROTON BEAMS; GEV RANGE 01-10; MILLI AMP BEAM CURRENTS; SUPERCONDUCTING CAVITY RESONATORS; BEAM TRANSPORT; BEAM EMITTANCE
Citation Formats
Garnett, R W, Billen, J H, Chan, K C, Genzlinger, R, Gray, E R, Nath, S, Rusnak, B, Schrage, D L, Stovall, J E, Takeda, H, Wood, R, Wangler, T P, and Young, L M. Linear accelerator for tritium production. United States: N. p., 1996.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.51068.
Garnett, R W, Billen, J H, Chan, K C, Genzlinger, R, Gray, E R, Nath, S, Rusnak, B, Schrage, D L, Stovall, J E, Takeda, H, Wood, R, Wangler, T P, & Young, L M. Linear accelerator for tritium production. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.51068
Garnett, R W, Billen, J H, Chan, K C, Genzlinger, R, Gray, E R, Nath, S, Rusnak, B, Schrage, D L, Stovall, J E, Takeda, H, Wood, R, Wangler, T P, and Young, L M. 1996.
"Linear accelerator for tritium production". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.51068.
@article{osti_383686,
title = {Linear accelerator for tritium production},
author = {Garnett, R W and Billen, J H and Chan, K C and Genzlinger, R and Gray, E R and Nath, S and Rusnak, B and Schrage, D L and Stovall, J E and Takeda, H and Wood, R and Wangler, T P and Young, L M},
abstractNote = {For many years now, Los Alamos National Laboratory has been working to develop a conceptual design of a facility for accelerator production of tritium (APT). The APT accelerator will produce high energy protons which will bombard a heavy metal target, resulting in the production of large numbers of spallation neutrons. These neutrons will be captured by a low-{ital Z} target to produce tritium. This paper describes the latest design of a room-temperature, 1.0 GeV, 100 mA, cw proton accelerator for tritium production. The potential advantages of using superconducting cavities in the high-energy section of the linac are also discussed and a comparison is made with the baseline room-temperature accelerator. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}},
doi = {10.1063/1.51068},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/383686},
journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
number = 1,
volume = 377,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996},
month = {Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996}
}