Conveners
Nuclear Physics Applications: AULA TRASLAZIONE
- Sylvie Leray (CEA Saclay)
- Anna Mackova (Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Nuclear Physics Applications: AULA TRASLAZIONE
- Sylvie Leray (CEA Saclay)
- Anna Mackova (Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Nuclear Physics Applications: AULA TRASLAZIONE
- Anna Mackova (Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Sylvie Leray (CEA Saclay)
Description
Room 2
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Chiara La Tessa (T)05/09/2018, 13:00Charged particles are one of the elements that link innovations in cancer treatment with challenges related to space exploration. The growing popularity of radiotherapy with protons and Carbon ions as well as the interest in finding additional candidate ions (as Helium or Oxygen) calls for nuclear and dosimetry measurements to develop and validate the delivery techniques. The roadmap of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Carlos Paradela (European Commission, Joint Reseach Center JRC, Directorate G - Nuclear Safety & Security)05/09/2018, 13:30Neutron-induced reactions can be used to study the properties of nuclear materials in the field of nuclear safeguards and security. The elemental and isotopic composition of these materials can be determined by using the presence of resonance structures in the reaction cross sections as fingerprints. This idea is the basis of two non-destructive analytical techniques which have been developed...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Francis Cucinotta (University of Nevada Las Vegas)05/09/2018, 13:50National space agencies and commercial companies continue to develop plans for long-term space missions outside the protection of the Earth's magnetosphere. An important concern for astronauts participating in these missions are the health effects from galactic cosmic rays (GCR). The GCR consist of protons, helium, and heavy ions with energy spectrum peaking at a few hundred MeV/nucleon,...Go to contribution page
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Gaia Pupillo (LNL)05/09/2018, 14:10In the framework of the SPES project at INFN-LNL, the LAboratory of RAdionuclide for MEDicine (LARAMED) program is focused on the production of innovative radionuclides of medical interest by exploiting the new 70 MeV proton cyclotron, installed in 2015. Among the various radionuclides of interest, the ones with theranostic application are in the spotlight, thanks to their potential use both...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sotirios Harissopulos (NCSR "Demokritos" - Athens)06/09/2018, 14:00Promotion of nuclear applications for peaceful purposes and related capacity building is among the missions of the IAEA. In this context, accelerator applications and nuclear instrumentation is one of the thematic areas, where the IAEA supports its Member States in strengthening their capabilities to adopt and benefit from the usage of accelerators. A number of activities are being implemented...Go to contribution page
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Roberto Spighi (BO)06/09/2018, 14:30Particle therapy uses proton or 12-C beams for the treatment of deep-seated solid tumours. Due to the features of energy deposition of charged particles a small amount of dose is released to the healthy tissue in the beam entrance region, while the maximum of the dose is released to the tumour at the end of the beam range, in the Bragg peak region. Dose deposition is dominated by...Go to contribution page
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Theresa Benyo (NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration))06/09/2018, 15:00NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) is investigating electron screened, enhanced nuclear reactions in deuterated materials exposed to bremsstrahlung photons with kinetic energies above and below the deuteron photo-dissociation energy. Recent experiments used a continuous beam Dynamitron electron accelerator with a braking target. Previously published research shows gamma spin-up evidence of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Federico Rocchi (ENEA)06/09/2018, 15:20157Gd and 155Gd play a crucial role in the neutronics of thermal spectrum systems; this is due to their extremely high capture cross section at low neutron energies, so high that they can compete very efficiently with 235U and 239Pu in neutron absorption, even at very low atomic concentrations. Thanks to this characteristic, Gd odd isotopes can play either the role of parasitic neutron...Go to contribution page
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Simone Amaducci (LNS)06/09/2018, 15:40The 235U(n,f) cross section is established as a standard reference for measurements and evaluations at thermal neutron energy and in the range between 150 keV and 200 MeV. Thanks, amongst other considerations, to this wide energy interval the 235U fission is one of the most used standards, but recent experimental data suggest the presence of discrepancies in the 235U(n,f) reaction cross...Go to contribution page
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Dr Carmen Angulo (SCK•CEN, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre)06/09/2018, 17:00MYRRHA is conceived as an Accelerator Driven System (ADS).It consists of a proton linear accelerator (linac) of 600 MeV, a spallation neutron source and a nuclear core cooled by liquid Lead-Bismuth (LBE). The 600 MeV accelerator of MYRRHA is a high intensity proton machine, delivering a proton beam on a spallation target. The high-energy protons are used in this target to create neutrons by...Go to contribution page
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Mario Mastromarco (BA)06/09/2018, 17:30Fuel assemblies (FAs) of current Thermal Reactors such as Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) and Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) make extensive use of the so-called “burnable neutron poisons”, i.e. isotopes characterized by a very high neutron capture cross section at thermal energy, so as to compete with the fissile 235U isotope in neutron absorption. One element that can be conveniently used as...Go to contribution page
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Francisco Ogallar Ruiz (University of Granada)06/09/2018, 17:50The n_TOF Collaboration, neutron time-of-flight, is the spallation neutron source facility located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) based on a 20 GeV/c proton beam impinging on a lead target. n_TOF is a unique facility in the world due to the state-of-the-art of detectors, the data acquisition system and the characteristics of its neutron beam, i.e., high instantaneous...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Cristiana Oprea (JINR)06/09/2018, 18:10The fission process induced by gamma quantas up to 25 MeV energy on 238U was analyzed. Experimental observables as cross sections, fragments mass distribution yields of some nuclides of interest and average prompt neutrons multiplicity characterizing 238U photofission were theoretically evaluated by using TALYS-1.9 software. Also results for the theoretical evaluations of isomer ratios using...Go to contribution page