Attenuation curves in concrete of neutrons from 1 GeV/u C and U ions on a Fe target for the shielding design of RIB in-flight facilities

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 226, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 231-242

  Agosteo, S ^a   Fehrenbacher, G ^b   Silari, M ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heavy ions; Monte Carlo; Neutron attenuation; Rare isotope beams; Shielding data

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; HEAVY IONS; IRON; ISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON BEAMS; URANIUM;

NEUTRON ATTENUATION; RARE ISOTOPE BEAMS; SHIELDING DATA; T COILS;

RADIATION SHIELDING;

EID: 12544259716     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2004.06.038     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. W.F. Henning, Plans for the future facility at GSI, in: J.M. D'Auria, J. Thomson, M. Comyn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference on electromagnetic isotope separators and techniques related to their applications, Victoria, BC, Canada, 6-10 May 2002, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 204 (2003) 725
2. W.F. Henning, Plans for the future facility at GSI, in: J.M. D'Auria, J. Thomson, M. Comyn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference on electromagnetic isotope separators and techniques related to their applications, Victoria, BC, Canada, 6-10 May 2002, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 204 (2003) 725
3. T. Motobayashi, RI beam factory project at RIKEN, in: J.M. D'Auria, J. Thomson, M. Comyn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference on electromagnetic isotope separators and techniques related to their applications, Victoria, BC, Canada, 6-10 May 2002, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 204 (2003) 736
4. T. Motobayashi, RI beam factory project at RIKEN, in: J.M. D'Auria, J. Thomson, M. Comyn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference on electromagnetic isotope separators and techniques related to their applications, Victoria, BC, Canada, 6-10 May 2002, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 204 (2003) 736
5. B.M. Sherill, Overview of the rare isotope accelerator project, in: J.M. D'Auria, J. Thomson, M. Comyn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference on electromagnetic isotope separators and techniques related to their applications, Victoria, BC, Canada, 6-10 May 2002, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 204 (2003) 765
6. B.M. Sherill, Overview of the rare isotope accelerator project, in: J.M. D'Auria, J. Thomson, M. Comyn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference on electromagnetic isotope separators and techniques related to their applications, Victoria, BC, Canada, 6-10 May 2002, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 204 (2003) 765
7. G. Savard, Status of the R&D for the rare isotope accelerator project, in: J.M. D'Auria, J. Thomson, M. Comyn (Ed.), Proceedings of the 14th conference on electromagnetic isotope separators and techniques related to their applications, Victoria, BC, Canada, 6-10 May 2002, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 204 (2003) 771
8. G. Savard, Status of the R&D for the rare isotope accelerator project, in: J.M. D'Auria, J. Thomson, M. Comyn (Ed.), Proceedings of the 14th conference on electromagnetic isotope separators and techniques related to their applications, Victoria, BC, Canada, 6-10 May 2002, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 204 (2003) 771
9. A. Fassò, A. Ferrari, and P.R. Sala Electron-photon transport in FLUKA: status A. Kling F. Barao M. Nakagawa L. Tavora P. Vaz Proceedings of the Monte Carlo 2000 Conference, Lisbon, 23-26 October 2000 2001 Springer-Verlag Berlin 159
10. A. Fassò, A. Ferrari, J. Ranft, and P.R. Sala FLUKA: status and prospective for hadronic applications A. Kling F. Barao M. Nakagawa L. Tavora P. Vaz Proceedings of the Monte Carlo 2000 Conference, Lisbon, 23-26 October 2000 2001 Springer-Verlag Berlin 955
11. MCNPX User's Manual, Version 2.4.0, LA-CP-02-408, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, September 2002 (http://mcnpx.lanl.gov/)
12. N.V. Mokhov, S.I. Striganov, A. Van Ginneken, S.G. Mashnik, A.J. Sierk, J. Ranft, MARS code developments, in: T. Gabriel (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Simulating Accelerator Radiation Environments (SARE4), Knoxville (TN, USA), 14-16 September 1998, ORNL, 1998, p. 87
13. V. Andersen et al., The fluka code for space applications: recent developments, in: Proceedings of the 34th COSPAR scientific assembly, World Space Congress, Houston, Texas, USA, 10-19 October 2002, Adv. Space Res., doi:10.1016/j.asr.2003.03.045
14. H. Iwase, T. Kurosawa, T. Nakamura, N. Yoshizawa, and J. Funabiki Development of heavy ion transport Monte Carlo code Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 183 2001 374
15. H. Iwase, K. Niita, and T. Nakamura Development of general-purpose particle and heavy ion transport code J. Nucl. Sci. Technol. 39 2002 1142
16. H. Iwase, Development and experimental evaluation of a general-purpose heavy-ion transport Monte Carlo code, Ph.D. Thesis, Tohoku University, March 2003
17. B.J. Moyer, Evaluation of shielding required for the improved Bevatron, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Report UCRL-9769, June 1961; B.J. Moyer Method of Calculating the Shielding Enclosure of the Bevatron Premier Colloque International sur la Protection Auprés des Grands Accélé rateurs 1962 Presses Universitaires de France Paris
18. B.J. Moyer, Evaluation of shielding required for the improved Bevatron, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Report UCRL-9769, June 1961; B.J. Moyer Method of Calculating the Shielding Enclosure of the Bevatron Premier Colloque International sur la Protection Auprés des Grands Accélé rateurs 1962 Presses Universitaires de France Paris
19. T. Kurosawa, N. Nakao, T. Nakamura, Y. Uwamino, T. Shibata, N. Nakanishi, A. Fukumura, and K. Murakami Measurements of secondary neutrons produced from thick targets bombarded by high-energy helium and carbon ions Nucl. Sci. Eng. 132 1999 30
20. T. Kurosawa, N. Nakao, T. Nakamura, Y. Uwamino, T. Shibata, A. Fukumura, and K. Murakami Measurements of secondary neutrons produced from thick targets bombarded by high energy neon ions J. Nucl. Sci. Technol. 36 1999 41
21. T. Kurosawa, N. Nakao, T. Nakamura, H. Iwase, H. Sato, Y. Uwamino, and A. Fukumura Neutron yields from thick C, Al, Cu and Pb targets bombarded by 400 MeV/nucleon Ar, Fe, Xe and 800 MeV/nucleon Si ions Phys. Rev. C 62 Third series, no. 4 2000
22. S. Agosteo, T. Nakamura, M. Silari, and Z. Zajacova Attenuation curves in concrete of neutrons from 100-400 MeV per nucleon He, C, Ne, Ar, Fe and Xe ions on various targets Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 217 2004 221
23. 2-Teleskop-Detektor (Messungen im Rahmen des Tumortherapieprojekts der GSI), Ph.D-work (in German), Technical University Darmstadt, January 2004
24. C. Scheidenberger, and H. Geissel Penetration of relativistic heavy ions through matter Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 135 1998 25
25. H. Geissel, and C. Scheidenberger Slowing down of relativistic heavy ions and new applications Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 136-138 1998 114
26. National Council of Radiation Protection, Radiation protection design guidelines for 0.1-100 MeV particle accelerators facilities, NCRP Report 51, 1977
27. R.C. McCall, T.M. Jenkins, and R.A. Shore Transport of accelerator produced neutrons in a concrete room IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS 26 1979 1593
28. A. Ferrari, P.R. Sala, The physics of high energy reactions, in: A. Gandini and G. Reffo (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Nuclear Reaction Data and Nuclear Reactor Physics, Design and Safety, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare-Trieste (Italy), 15 April-17 May 1996, Vol. 2, World Scientific, 1998, p. 424
29. A. Ferrari, and M. Pelliccioni Fluence to dose equivalent conversion data and effective quality factors for high energy neutrons Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 76 1998 215
30. M. Pelliccioni Overview of fluence-to-effective dose and fluence to-ambient dose equivalent conversion coefficients for high-energy radiation calculated using the FLUKA code Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 88 2000 279
31. R.H. Thomas, G.R. Stevenson, Radiological safety aspects of the operation of proton accelerators, IAEA Technical Reports Series No. 283, Vienna, 1988
32. H.-P. Weise, Shielding of high energy heavy ion accelerators, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Radiation Shielding, Bournemouth (UK), 12-16 September 1988, Vol. 3, 1988, p. 903
33. Gutachten der BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung) zur "Abschirmung des geplanten Schwerionen-Synchrotrons der Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI)"; 11.06.1986 (in German), unpublished
34. D. Filges, G. Sterzenbach, Ergebnisbericht für erste theoretische Untersuchungen zur Erzeugung von Neutronenflußspektren mit Protonen und Ionen an einem Eisentarget für Abschirmuntersuchungen am geplanten GSI - Speicherring, Institut für Reaktorentwicklung, KFA Jülich, Aktennotiz 02/1986 (in German), unpublished
35. M.-C. Lemaire, S. Nagamiya, O. Chamberlain, G. Shapiro, S. Schnetzer, H. Steiner, I. Tanihata, Tables of light-fragment inclusive cross sections in relativistic heavy ion collisions, LBL-Report 8463, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1979
36. S. Agosteo, C. Birattari, A. Foglio Para, M. Silari, and L. Ulrici Neutron measurements around a beam dump bombarded by high energy protons and lead ions Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 459 2001 58
37. S. Agosteo, C. Birattari, A. Foglio Para, A. Mitaroff, M. Silari, and L. Ulrici 90° neutron emission from high energy protons and lead ions on a thin lead target Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 476 2002 63
38. S. Agosteo, C. Birattari, A. Foglio Para, L. Gini, A. Mitaroff, M. Silari, and L. Ulrici Neutron production from 158 GeV/c per nucleon lead ions on thin copper and lead targets in the angular range 30°-135° Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 194 2002 399
39. S. Agosteo, C. Birattari, A. Foglio Para, E. Nava, M. Silari, and L. Ulrici Neutron measurements in the stray field produced by 158 GeV/c lead ion beams Health Phys. 75 1998 619
40. T. Nunomiya, S. Yonai, M. Takada, A. Fukumura, and T. Nakamura Shielding experiment of heavy-ion produced neutrons using a tissue-equivalent proportional counter Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 106 2003 207