Abstract
We report on the study of fast-neutron background for the BIFROST spectrometer
at ESS. We investigate the effect of background radiation induced by the interaction of fast neutrons from the source with the material of the neutron guide and devise a reasonable fast, thermal/cold neutron shielding solution for the current guide geometry using McStas and MCNPX. We investigate the effectiveness of the steel shielding around the guide by running simulations with three different steel thicknesses. The same approach is used to study the efficiencies of the steel wall a flat cylinder pierced by the guide in the middle and the polyethylene layer. The final model presented here has a 3 cm thick steel shielding around the guide, 30 cm of polyethylene around the shielding, two 5 mm thick B4C layers and a steel wall at position Z = 38 m, being 1 m thick and 10 m in radius. The final model finally proves that it is sufficient to bring the background level below the cosmic neutron rate, which defines an order of magnitude of the lowest obtainable background in the instruments.
at ESS. We investigate the effect of background radiation induced by the interaction of fast neutrons from the source with the material of the neutron guide and devise a reasonable fast, thermal/cold neutron shielding solution for the current guide geometry using McStas and MCNPX. We investigate the effectiveness of the steel shielding around the guide by running simulations with three different steel thicknesses. The same approach is used to study the efficiencies of the steel wall a flat cylinder pierced by the guide in the middle and the polyethylene layer. The final model presented here has a 3 cm thick steel shielding around the guide, 30 cm of polyethylene around the shielding, two 5 mm thick B4C layers and a steel wall at position Z = 38 m, being 1 m thick and 10 m in radius. The final model finally proves that it is sufficient to bring the background level below the cosmic neutron rate, which defines an order of magnitude of the lowest obtainable background in the instruments.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | VI European Conference on Neutron Scattering (ECNS2015) |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Article number | 012027 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | 6th European Conference on Neutron Scattering - Zaragoza, Spain Duration: 30 Aug 2015 → 4 Sept 2015 Conference number: 6 |
Conference
| Conference | 6th European Conference on Neutron Scattering |
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| Number | 6 |
| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Zaragoza |
| Period | 30/08/2015 → 04/09/2015 |
| Series | Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Online) |
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| Volume | 746 |
| ISSN | 1742-6596 |