Progress Towards an Indirect Neutron Capture Capability at LANSCE: October 2017 – September 2018

Technical Report · Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1469506· OSTI ID:1469506

Koehler, Paul E. ^[1]; Ullmann, John Leonard ^[1]; Couture, Aaron Joseph ^[1]; Mosby, Shea Morgan ^[1]

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

We describe progress developing the Device for Indirect Capture Experiments on Radionuclides (DICER) on flight path 13 at the Lujan Center at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE). This capability is being developed to tightly constrain neutron-capture cross section on short-lived radioactive nuclides of high importance to weapons-program sponsors via neutron total cross section measurements on the same nuclides. In this report, we describe progress in this endeavor during October 2017 through September 2018.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1469506
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-18-28608
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English