Back-n white neutron source at CSNS and its applications

• 作者: Jing-Yu Tang Qi An Jiang-Bo Bai Jie Bao Yu Bao Ping Cao Hao-Lei Chen Qi-Ping Chen Yong-Hao Chen Zhen Chen Zeng-Qi Cui Rui-Rui Fan Chang-Qing Feng Ke-Qing Gao Xiao-Long Gao Min-Hao Gu Chang-Cai Han Zi-Jie Han Guo-Zhu He Yong-Cheng He Yang Hong Yi-Wei Hu Han-Xiong Huang Xi-Ru Huang Hao-Yu Jiang Wei Jiang Zhi-Jie Jiang Han-Tao Jing Ling Kang Bo Li Chao Li Jia-Wen Li Qiang Li Xiao Li Yang Li Jie Liu Rong Liu Shu-Bin Liu Xing-Yan Liu Ze Long Guang-Yuan Luan Chang-Jun Ning Meng-Chen Niu Bin-Bin Qi Jie Ren Zhi-Zhou Ren Xi-Chao Ruan Zhao-Hui Song Kang Sun Zhi-Jia Sun Zhi-Xin Tan Xin-Yi Tang Bin-Bin Tian Li-Jiao Wang Peng-Cheng Wang Zhao-Hui Wang Zhong-Wei Wen Xiao-Guang Wu Xuan Wu Li-Kun Xie Xiao-Yun Yang Yi-Wei Yang Han Yi Li Yu Tao Yu Yong-Ji Yu Guo-Hui Zhang Lin-Hao Zhang Qi-Wei Zhang Xian-Peng Zhang Yu-Liang Zhang Zhi-Yong Zhang Lu-Ping Zhou Zhi-Hao Zhou Ke-Jun Zhu The CSNS Back-n Collaboration
• 来源期刊: 核技术（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: ACCELERATOR, RAY TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS
• 页码范围: 95-104
• 页数: 10页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Back-streaming neutrons from the spallation target of the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) that emit through the incoming proton channel were exploited to build a white neutron beam facility (the so-called Back-n white neutron source), which was completed in March 2018. The Back-n neutron beam is very intense, at approximately 2 × 107 n/cm2/s at 55 m from the target, and has a nominal proton beam with a power of 100 kW in the CSNS-I phase and a kinetic energy of 1.6 GeV and a thick tungsten target in multiple slices with modest mod-eration from the cooling water through the slices. In addition, the excellent energy spectrum spanning from 0.5 eV to 200 MeV, and a good time resolution related to the time-of-flight measurements make it a typical white neutron source for nuclear data measurements; its overall performance is among that of the best white neutron sources in the world. Equipped with advanced spectrome-ters, detectors, and application utilities, the Back-n facility can serve wide applications, with a focus on neutron-in-duced cross-sectional measurements. This article presents an overview of the neutron beam characteristics, the experimental setups, and the ongoing applications at Back-n.