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Title: Benchmarking residual dose rates in a NuMI-like environment

Abstract

Activation of various structural and shielding materials is an important issue for many applications. A model developed recently to calculate residual activity of arbitrary composite materials for arbitrary irradiation and cooling times is presented in the paper. Measurements have been performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory using a 120 GeV proton beam to study induced radioactivation of materials used for beam line components and shielding. The calculated residual dose rates for the samples studied behind the target and outside of the thick shielding are presented and compared with the measured ones. Effects of energy spectra, sample material and dimensions, their distance from the shielding, and gaps between the shielding modules and walls as well as between the modules themselves were studied in detail.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
OSTI Identifier:
788247
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-Conf-01/304-E
TRN: US0110774
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH03000
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: AccApp'01 and ADTTA'01, Reno, NV (US), 11/11/2001--11/15/2001; Other Information: PBD: 2 Nov 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DOSE RATES; ENERGY SPECTRA; FERMILAB ACCELERATOR; IRRADIATION; PROTON BEAMS; RADIOACTIVATION; SHIELDING; SHIELDING MATERIALS; TARGETS

Citation Formats

Rakhno, Igor L. Benchmarking residual dose rates in a NuMI-like environment. United States: N. p., 2001. Web.
Rakhno, Igor L. Benchmarking residual dose rates in a NuMI-like environment. United States.
Rakhno, Igor L. 2001. "Benchmarking residual dose rates in a NuMI-like environment". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/788247.
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abstractNote = {Activation of various structural and shielding materials is an important issue for many applications. A model developed recently to calculate residual activity of arbitrary composite materials for arbitrary irradiation and cooling times is presented in the paper. Measurements have been performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory using a 120 GeV proton beam to study induced radioactivation of materials used for beam line components and shielding. The calculated residual dose rates for the samples studied behind the target and outside of the thick shielding are presented and compared with the measured ones. Effects of energy spectra, sample material and dimensions, their distance from the shielding, and gaps between the shielding modules and walls as well as between the modules themselves were studied in detail.},
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