title: Design of 6Mev linear accelerator based pulsed thermal neutron source: FLUKA simulation and experiment.
abstract: The 6MeV LINAC based pulsed thermal neutron source has been designed for bulk materials analysis. The design was optimized by varying different parameters of the target and materials for each region using FLUKA code. The optimized design of thermal neutron source gives flux of 3×10(6)ncm(-2)s(-1) with more than 80% of thermal neutrons and neutron to gamma ratio was 1×10(4)ncm(-2)mR(-1). The results of prototype experiment and simulation are found to be in good agreement with each other.
authors: Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, India.
authors: B J
authors: BJ
authors: Patil
authors: S T
authors: ST
authors: Chavan
authors: S N
authors: SN
authors: Pethe
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Krishnan
authors: V N
authors: VN
authors: Bhoraskar
authors: S D
authors: SD
authors: Dhole
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004583:Electrons; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008422:Materials Testing / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009501:Neutron Activation Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000295:instrumentation*