{sup 18}Ne production for the Beta beams project

Journal Article · Mon Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2013 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4856549· OSTI ID:22262675

Hodák, Rastislav ^[1]; Mendonça, Tania M. ^[2]; Stora, Thierry ^[3]

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1. Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, CTU in Prague, Horská 3/22a, CZ-12800 Prague (Czech Republic)
2. IFIMUP and IN - Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal and CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Swaziland)
3. CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Intense relativistic (anti)neutrino beams are an unique tool required to study fundamental properties of neutrinos such as neutrino oscillation parameters, as well as their Majorana or Dirac nature, the lepton number conservation hypothesis and the absolute neutrino mass scale. Such beams originate from acceleration of β-decaying radioactive ions (“Beta beams”). A molten fluoride salt target has been developed for the production of the required rates of low-Q baseline isotope {sup 18}Ne for the Beta beams project. The prototyped unit has been tested on-line at ISOLDE-CERN. In this contribution an overview of the prototyping and on-line tests is presented.

• OSTI ID: 22262675
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1572, Issue 1; Conference: MEDEX '13: Workshop on calculation of double-beta-decay materx elements, Prague (Czech Republic), 11-14 Jun 2013; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
ACCELERATION
DECAY
FLUORIDES
LEPTON NUMBER
MOLTEN SALTS
NEON 18
NEUTRINO BEAMS
NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
NEUTRINOS
RELATIVISTIC RANGE