Design and commissioning of an e-beam irradiation beamline at the Upgraded Injector Test Facility at Jefferson Lab

Li, Xi; Baumgart, Helmut; Bott, Charles; Ciovati, Gianluigi; Gregory, Shaun; Hannon, Fay; McCaughan, Mike; Pearce, Robert; Poelker, Matthew; Vennekate, Hannes; Wang, Shaoheng

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2022.167093

Design and commissioning of an e-beam irradiation beamline at the Upgraded Injector Test Facility at Jefferson Lab

Journal Article · Sun Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167093· OSTI ID:1876548

^[1]; ^[2]; Bott, Charles ^[3]; ^[4]; Gregory, Shaun ^[4]; Hannon, Fay ^[5]; McCaughan, Mike ^[4]; Pearce, Robert ^[3]; Poelker, Matthew ^[4]; Vennekate, Hannes ^[4]; Wang, Shaoheng ^[4]

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (United States)
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Hampton Roads Sanitation District, Virginia Beach, VA (United States); Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Phase Space Tech, Norra Villavagen, (Sweden)

We report the Upgraded Injector Test Facility (UITF) at Jefferson Lab is a continuous-wave superconducting linear accelerator capable of providing an electron beam with energy up to 10 MeV. A beamline for electron-beam irradiation has been designed, installed and successfully commissioned at this facility, aimed at the degradation study of 1,4-dioxane and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in wastewater treatment. A solenoid with a peak axial magnetic field of up to 0.28 T and a set of raster coils were used to obtain a Gaussian beam profile with a transverse standard deviation of ~ 15.0 mm at the target location. Monte-Carlo simulations using FLUKA were carried out to calculate the total absorbed dose and the dose distribution in the sample volume inside the target cell. The simulations were benchmarked experimentally by dosimetry mapping using optichromic dosimeters. The results of the irradiation experiments showed a ~ 95% reduction of 1,4-dioxane in ultra-pure water for a dose of 1 kGy, demonstrating the potential of electron-beam irradiation towards addressing growing challenges in environmental remediation.

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Research Organization:: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-06OR23177

OSTI ID:: 1876548

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1962952

Report Number(s):: DOE/OR/23177-5534; JLAB-ACC-22-3586

Journal Information:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Journal Name: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Vol. 1039; ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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