Linear accelerator for tritium production
- Accelerator Operations and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
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.}
- OSTI ID:
- 383686
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9510361-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 96:026272
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 377, 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
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