scholarly journals Measurement of displacement cross section of structural materials utilized in the proton accelerator facilities with the kinematic energy above 400 MeV

2020 ◽  
Vol 239 ◽  
pp. 06006
Author(s):  
Shin-ichiro MEIGO ◽  
Hiroki MATSUDA ◽  
Yosuke IWAMOTO ◽  
Makoto YOSHIDA ◽  
Shoichi HASEGAWA ◽  
...  

For damage estimation of structural material in the accelerator facility, displacement per atom (DPA) is widely employed as an index of the damage calculated based on the displacement cross section obtained with the calculation model. Although the DPA is employed as the standard, the experimental data of displacement cross section are scarce for a proton in the energy region above 20 MeV. Among the calculation models, the difference exists about 8 times so that experimental data of the displacement cross section is crucial to validate the model. To obtain the displacement cross section, we conducted the experiment in J-PARC. As a preliminary result, the displacement cross section of copper was successfully obtained for 3-GeV proton. The present results showed that the widely utilized the Norgertt-Robinson-Torrens (NRT) model overestimates the cross section as suggested by the previous experiment for protons with lower energy.

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 1860117
Author(s):  
Rosie Newton ◽  
Mike J. Scott ◽  
Malcolm J. Joyce

Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) show potential for detecting charged particles and ionizing radiation. In particular, the clusters in the pixel images produced can be distinctive for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] radiation, with [Formula: see text] particles causing symmetrical clusters or vertical tracks, and [Formula: see text] particles causing long, curved tracks. This distinction may be exploited by means of a handheld, portable device for in-situ detection, and identification of radioactive contamination. [Formula: see text]-particle track interactions in CCDs have been investigated. Simulative results using CASINO (Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Trajectory in Solids) attempt to predict the size of [Formula: see text]-particle pixel clusters, using 512 keV and 310 keV electrons to represent [Formula: see text]Cs and [Formula: see text]Co, respectively. The number of pixels that higher-energy electrons traversed peaked at two, while lower-energy electrons had a smaller peak of 2.5 pixels, with a higher proportion of large cluster sizes. This finding is consistent with the higher scattering cross-section for lower-energy [Formula: see text] particles. By contrast, experimental data show a peak at one pixel for both sources, owing to the addition of smaller [Formula: see text] clusters. The [Formula: see text]Co source shows a higher proportion of large cluster sizes than the [Formula: see text]Cs, as was also seen in the simulation; however, the difference was small, as these sources are similar in energy. Simulative and experimental data will be used to process the CCD images further, with the objective of distinguishing between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] radiation. Investigations have also been carried out using a [Formula: see text]Po [Formula: see text] particle source. Horizontal streaks were seen in the images produced, with an average length of 14 pixels. Further research will be performed using an accelerator to obtain different [Formula: see text]-particle energies.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2150135
Author(s):  
S. D. Campos

Based on the Pomeranchuk theorem, one constructs the [Formula: see text] parameter to measure the difference between experimental data for the particle–particle and particle–antiparticle total cross-section at same energy. The experimental data for the proton–proton and proton–antiproton total cross-section were used to show that, at the same energy, this parameter tends to zero as the collision energy grows. Furthermore, one assumes a classical description for the total cross-section, dividing it into a finite number of non-interacting disjoint cells, each one containing a quark–antiquark pair subject to the confinement potential. Near the minimum of the total cross-section, one associates [Formula: see text] with the entropy generated by these cells, analogously to the [Formula: see text]-model. Using both the Quigg–Rosner and Cornell confinement potentials and neglecting other energy contributions, one can calculate the internal energy of the hadron. One obtains that both the entropy and internal energy possess the same logarithmic dependence on the spatial separation between the pairs in the cell. The Helmholtz free energy is used to estimate the transition temperature, which is far from the temperature widely related to the Quark–Gluon Plasma.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
G. Perdikakis ◽  
C. T. Papadopoulos ◽  
M. Kokkoris ◽  
R. Vlastou

The cross section of the reaction 2ilAm(n, 2n), has been measured by the activation method in the range from 9.6 to 11.4 MeV, at the Tandem accelerator facility of NCSR Demokritos. Statistical model calculations in the framework of the Hauser- Feshbach theory have been performed, and the first results are presented. Experimental data on the neutron induced fission cross section of 241Am, have been used as a constraint for the calculations. The results of the investigation are presented in comparison with experimental data and previous theoretical evaluations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 106 (6) ◽  
pp. 603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bendaoud Mebarek ◽  
Mourad Keddam

In this paper, we develop a boronizing process simulation model based on fuzzy neural network (FNN) approach for estimating the thickness of the FeB and Fe2B layers. The model represents a synthesis of two artificial intelligence techniques; the fuzzy logic and the neural network. Characteristics of the fuzzy neural network approach for the modelling of boronizing process are presented in this study. In order to validate the results of our calculation model, we have used the learning base of experimental data of the powder-pack boronizing of Fe-15Cr alloy in the temperature range from 800 to 1050 °C and for a treatment time ranging from 0.5 to 12 h. The obtained results show that it is possible to estimate the influence of different process parameters. Comparing the results obtained by the artificial neural network to experimental data, the average error generated from the fuzzy neural network was 3% for the FeB layer and 3.5% for the Fe2B layer. The results obtained from the fuzzy neural network approach are in agreement with the experimental data. Finally, the utilization of fuzzy neural network approach is well adapted for the boronizing kinetics of Fe-15Cr alloy.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 2972-2978
Author(s):  
Fouad A. Majeed ◽  
Yousif A. Abdul-Hussien

In this study the calculations of the total fusion reaction cross section have been performed for fusion reaction systems 17F + 208Pb and 15C + 232Th which involving halo nuclei by using a semiclassical approach.The semiclassical treatment is comprising the WKB approximation to describe the relative motion between target and projectile nuclei, and Continuum Discretized Coupled Channel (CDCC) method to describe the intrinsic motion for both target and projectile nuclei. For the same of comparsion a full quantum mechanical clacualtions have been preforemd using the (CCFULL) code. Our theorticalrestuls are compared with the full quantum mechaincialcalcuations and with the recent experimental data for the total fusion reaction  checking the stability of the distancesThe coupled channel calculations of the total fusion cross section σfus, and the fusion barrier distribution Dfus. The comparsion with experiment proves that the semiclassiacl approach adopted in the present work reproduce the experimental data better that the full quantal mechanical calcautions. 


Author(s):  
Л. Р. Маилян ◽  
С. А. Стельмах ◽  
Е. М. Щербань ◽  
М. П. Нажуев

Состояние проблемы. Железобетонные элементы изготавливаются, как правило, по трем основным технологиям - вибрированием, центрифугированием и виброцентрифугированием. Однако все основные расчетные зависимости для определения их несущей способности выведены, исходя из основного постулата - постоянства и равенства характеристик бетона по сечению, что реализуется лишь в вибрированных колоннах. Результаты. В рамках диаграммного подхода предложены итерационный, приближенный и упрощенный способы расчета несущей способности железобетонных вибрированных, центрифугированных и виброцентрифугированных колонн. Выводы. Расчет по диаграммному подходу показал существенно более подходящую сходимость с опытными данными, чем расчет по методике норм, а также дал лучшие результаты при использовании дифференциальных характеристик бетона, чем при использовании интегральных и, тем более, нормативных характеристик бетона. Statement of the problem. Reinforced concrete elements are typically manufactured according to three basic technologies - vibration, centrifugation and vibrocentrifugation. However, all the basic calculated dependencies for determining their bearing capacity were derived using the main postulate, i.e., the constancy and equality of the characteristics of concrete over the cross section, which is implemented only in vibrated columns. Results. Within the framework of the diagrammatic approach, iterative, approximate and simplified methods of calculating the bearing capacity of reinforced concrete vibrated, centrifuged and vibrocentrifuged columns are proposed. Conclusions. The calculation according to the diagrammatic approach showed a significantly better convergence with the experimental data than that using the method of norms, and also performs better when using differential characteristics of concrete than when employing integral and particularly standard characteristics of concrete.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Chung Au

AbstractThis paper proposes an extended version of the interventionist account for causal inference in the practical context of biological mechanism research. This paper studies the details of biological mechanism researchers’ practices of assessing the evidential legitimacy of experimental data, arguing why quantity and variety are two important criteria for this assessment. Because of the nature of biological mechanism research, the epistemic values of these two criteria result from the independence both between the causation of data generation and the causation in question and between different interventions, not techniques. The former independence ensures that the interventions in the causation in question are not affected by the causation that is responsible for data generation. The latter independence ensures the reliability of the final mechanisms not only in the empirical but also the formal aspects. This paper first explores how the researchers use quantity to check the effectiveness of interventions, where they at the same time determine the validity of the difference-making revealed by the results of interventions. Then, this paper draws a distinction between experimental interventions and experimental techniques, so that the reliability of mechanisms, as supported by the variety of evidence, can be safely ensured in the probabilistic sense. The latter process is where the researchers establish evidence of the mechanisms connecting the events of interest. By using case studies, this paper proposes to use ‘intervention’ as the fruitful connecting point of literature between evidence and mechanisms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Mert Şekerci ◽  
Hasan Özdoğan ◽  
Abdullah Kaplan

Abstract One of the methods used to treat different cancer diseases is the employment of therapeutic radioisotopes. Therefore, many clinical, theoretical and experimental studies are being carried out on those radioisotopes. In this study, the effects of level density models and gamma ray strength functions on the theoretical production cross-section calculations for the therapeutic radioisotopes 90Y, 153Sm, 169Er, 177Lu and 186Re in the (n,γ) route have been investigated. TALYS 1.9 code has been used by employing different level density models and gamma ray strength functions. The theoretically obtained data were compared with the experimental data taken from the literature. The results are presented graphically for better interpretation.


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