Short-Bunch Stacking Mode for The PSR: An Overview

Technical Report · Mon Apr 09 04:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1060893· OSTI ID:1060893

Jason, Andrew J. ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The overall upgrade involving a short-bunch PSR mode proceeds from the WNRproposed-project main goals, namely greatly enhancing the ability of WNR to measure neutron cross-sections and reaction dynamics, in a wide neutron-energy range (from thermal to ~100 MeV.) Such measurements, with currently (and surprisingly) sparse data, are of strong interest to several areas of application including weapons physics, nuclear science and engineering, astrophysics, homeland defense, and isotope production. As well as accelerator enhancement, the project plans to enhance radiochemistry facilities, revive the shelved radioactive-species-isotope separator, create a new faster version (TANGO) of the DANCE detector used at LANSCE, and enhance the WNR target and data-taking infrastructure. The cost of all this has not been well established and funding (so far negligible) is needed to achieve a credible figure. A proposal has been sent to NNSA and is currently under review.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1060893
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--13-20465
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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