Open AccessHiSPANoS facility and the new neutron beam line for TOF measurements at the Spanish National Accelerator Lab (CNA)
Author(s) -
B. Fernández,
M. Macías,
C. Guerrero,
M. A. Millán-Callado,
T. Rodríguez-Gonzalez,
J. M. Quesada,
J. GòmezCamacho,
J. Praena
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1643/1/012033
Subject(s) - nuclear physics , neutron , physics , proton , chopper , particle accelerator , linear particle accelerator , neutron source , beam (structure) , beamline , optics , voltage , quantum mechanics
HiSPANoS (HiSPAlis Neutron Source) is the first accelerator-based neutron facility in Spain, installed at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA), where different experiments have been performed related to nuclear astrophysics, detector characterization, electronic devices irradiation, imaging, etc. An upgrade of the neutron facility has been carried out recently, installing a pulsing system at the 3 MV tandem accelerator at CNA. Such system, composed by a chopper and buncher unit, can provide nanosecond proton and deuteron pulsed beams. A new experimental line dedicated to neutron time-of-flight (n-TOF) technique has been installed at the tandem accelerator. Proton and deuterium pulse width of 1 ns have been measured with a repetition rate in the range of 62.5 kHz to 2 MHz. The commissioning of the n-TOF line has consisted of the measurement of the neutron field generated by 7 Li(p,n) reaction with proton energy of 1912 keV.