High-Brilliance Neutron Source Project

The Spallation Neutron Source Project

The SNS is a "joint-venture" project of five DOE National Laboratories, aimed at building the world's most powerful accelerator-based pulse spallation source. At its planned 2 MW operation, it will produce neutron fluxes at least a factor of ten greater than Rutherford Appleton Laboratory’s ISIS, currently the world’s leading spallation source. The current design of the SNS, shown in Figure 1, ...

Compact High-brilliance Synchrotron Source Driven by a Tabletop Laser

High Brilliance and High Pressure: A New Diamond Anvil Cell Facility at the Advanced Photon Source

High energy and high brilliance make the Advanced Photon Source (APS) an ideal tool for high pressure studies. In this paper, we describe the diamond anvil cell (DAC) facility that is being developed for the APS by the GeoSoilEnviroCARS group of the Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS). The DAC program aims at studying properties of materials across the entire pressure-temperature s...

High-Yield Z-Pinch Thermonuclear Neutron Source

Introduction: Neutron beams are useful for many applications, from noninvasive imaging and characterization of materials to producing medical isotopes and detecting hidden explosive devices. Some applications require high-energy neutrons created in fusion nuclear reactions between deuterium (D) and tritium (T). To achieve thermal fusion, deuterium or DT plasma must be heated to about 10 8 K, wh...

Designing an Am-Be miniature neutron source

Background: Miniature neutron sources with high neutron flux have abundant applications in medicine, industry and researches. The most important general characteristic of miniature neutron sources is their diameter which is 3mm in average. In this research, we have surveyed and designed an Am-Be miniature neutron source fabrication. Materials and Methods: This investigation resulted in creation...