Be target development for the accelerator-based SPES-BNCT facility at INFN Legnaro

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 7-8 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Esposito, J ^a   Colautti, P ^a   Fabritsiev, S ^b   Gervash, A ^b   Giniyatulin, R ^b   Lomasov, V N ^c   Makhankov, A ^b   Mazul, I ^b   Pisent, A ^a   Pokrovsky, A ^d   Rumyantsev, M ^b   Tanchuk, V ^b   Tecchio, L ^a  

^a LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO   (Italy)

^b EFREMOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC REACTORS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

9Be(p,xn) reaction; Accelerator based BNCT; Beryllium target; Neutron source

Indexed keywords

9BE(P,XN) REACTION; ACCELERATOR-BASED BNCT; BEAM ENERGIES; CRITICAL ELEMENTS; EXOTIC SPECIES; HIGH POWER LEVEL; NEUTRON CONVERTERS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PRESENT STATUS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SELECTIVE PRODUCTION; TARGET CONCEPT; TEST RESULTS; THERMAL NEUTRONS;

BERYLLIUM; NEUTRON SOURCES; NUCLEAR REACTORS; TARGETS;

NEUTRONS;

BERYLLIUM;

ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; ITALY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOACTIVITY; REACTOR DESIGN; RELIABILITY;

BERYLLIUM; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FAST NEUTRONS; HUMANS; ITALY; MELANOMA; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67649394200     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.03.085     Document Type: Article

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