Name: UCANS V 5th International Meeting of Union for Compact Accelerator - Driven Neutron Sources
Start: 2015-05-12T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-05-15T18:00:00+02:00
Location: INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro

UCANS V <br> 5th International Meeting of Union for Compact Accelerator - Driven Neutron Sources

from Tuesday, 12 May 2015 (15:00) to Friday, 15 May 2015 (18:00)

Monday, 11 May 2015
Tuesday, 12 May 2015

15:00 REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Archivio Antico

15:30 Welcome address
Welcome address
15:30 - 15:45
Room: Archivio Antico
15:45
15:45 - 17:15
Room: Archivio Antico
Contributions

15:45 ISIS May 2015: current status and future plans - Carla Andreani (Università di Roma Tor vergata, Centro NAST e Dipartimento Fisica) Robert McGreevy (ISIS Pulsed Neutron Source, UK)

16:15 KEK activity on J-PARC neutron facility and compact neutron sources - Takashi Ino (KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan)

16:45 European Spallation Source ESS: principles, status, perspectives - Ferenc Mezei (European Spallation Source ESS AB)
17:15 Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
17:15 - 19:15
Room: Sala della Basilica
Wednesday, 13 May 2015

08:30 Bus transport Padova-LNL
Bus transport Padova-LNL
08:30 - 09:00

09:00 REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
09:00 - 09:50
Room: Aula "Villi"

09:50 Welcome Address
Welcome Address
09:50 - 10:05
Room: Aula "Villi"
10:05
10:05 - 13:45
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

10:05 Astrophysical quests for neutron capture data of unstable nuclei - Franz Käppeler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

10:35 Neutron-capture Cross-section of 69,71Ga and 63,65Cu at 25 and 90 keV - Clemens Beinrucker (Goethe University Frankfurt)

11:25 Fostering European Collaborations: EUFRAT and work done at JRC-IRMM - Wim Mondelaers (willy.mondelaers@ec.europa.eu)

11:45 Characterization of nuclear material by neutron resonance transmission analysis - Peter Schillebeeckx (EC-JRC-IRMM)

12:05 Measurement of neutron diffraction with compact neutron source RANS - Yoshimasa Ikeda (RIKEN)

12:25 Measurement of the total cross section of heavy water in the 0.1 meV - 1 eV energy range at 20 and 50 ºC - Jose Rolando Granada (Neutron Physics Department, Centro Atomico Bariloche)

12:45 Experimental program on Nuclear Astrophysics at the CERN n_TOF facility - Cristian Massimi (BO)

13:05 BELINA – Beam Line for Nuclear Astrophysics at LNL - Guido Martin-Hernandez (Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear, 5ta y 30, Playa, La Habana, Cuba)

13:25 Neutron sources based on medical Linac - Marco Costa (TO)
13:45 Lunch
Lunch
13:45 - 14:45
Room: LNL Canteen
14:45
14:45 - 15:25
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

14:45 A single-crystal Diamond Detector Matrix for DT plasma diagnostic - Marica Rebai (MIB)

15:05 The research of large area neutron sensitive MCP at Tsinghua University - Yigang Yang (Tsinghua University)
15:25
15:25 - 16:25
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

15:25 Monte Carlo Simulation of Accelerator-Based Epithermal Neutron Beams for Neutron Capture Therapy - Ignacio Porras (University of Granada, Spain)

15:45 BNCT neutron beam from accelerator - Ian Postuma (PV)

16:05 Development of a linac-based neutron source for BNCT with beryllium three-layer neutron target system - Takashi Nakamoto (Cosylab Japan)
16:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:25 - 16:40
16:40
16:40 - 17:55
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

16:40 Shielding design of RIKEN Accelerator-driven Neutron Source (RANS) and brief introduction of XJTU-CANS plan - Sheng Wang (RIKEN Institute/Xi'an Jiaotong University)

16:40 Development of a New Exclusive Function with a Center-of- Gravity Calculation for the 2012 Model 6Li Time Analyzer Neutron Detector System - Setsuo Satoh (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

16:40 Construction of an accelerator-driven compact neutron source for BNCT in Nagoya Univeristy - Kazuki Tsuchida (Nagoya University) Yoshiaki Kiyanagi (Nagoya University)

16:40 Improvement of Neutron Source for the Development of Non-destructive Methods Adapted for Integrity Test of Next Generation Nuclear Fuels at KURRI-LINAC - Tadafumi Sano (Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute)

16:40 Convertible Source System of Thermal neutron and X-ray at Hokkaido University Electron Linac Facility - Takashi Kamiyama (Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University)

16:40 Upgrade of the IBA dynamitron as a high-intensity proton accelerator - Denis Joassin (IBA)

16:40 Imaging of static objects using laser-driven neutron source - Seyed Reza Mirfayzi (Queen's University Belfast)

16:40 Fast-Neutron Generation by Laser-Driven Deuterium Ions from Ultrathin Targets - Aaron Alejo (Queen's University of Belfast)

16:40 HBS – A High Brilliant Neutron Source - Jan Philipp Dabruck (Institute NET, RWTH Aachen University) Tobias Cronert (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

16:40 The ESS Hellium Cooled Target - Sordo Fernando (Consorcio ESS-Bilbao)

16:40 Radiation Effects Research at LENS - David Baxter (LENS, Indiana University)
17:55 LNL Visit
LNL Visit
17:55 - 19:25
Room: LNL premises and facilities

19:25 Bus to Padova
Bus to Padova
19:25 - 19:55

20:15 Programme Committee Dinner
Programme Committee Dinner
20:15 - 22:15
Thursday, 14 May 2015

08:30 Bus to LNL
Bus to LNL
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Aula "Villi"
09:00
09:00 - 14:40
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

09:00 The SPES project at LNL - Gianfranco Prete (LNL)

09:20 The Helmholtz Neutron Strategy: Towards a High Brilliance Neutron Source - Thomas Brückel (Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

09:50 ESS-BILBAO: On going activities - Sordo Fernando (Consorcio ESS-Bilbao)

10:10 NEPIR: A neutron irradiation facility at the SPES high intensity 70 MeV Cyclotron of LNL - Jeffery Wyss (PD)

11:00 Multipurpose applications of the accelerator-based neutron source GENEPI2 - Francesca Villa (IN2P3/CNRS)

11:20 Development of a compact, intense and ns-pulsed neutron source for the application in fast neutron radiography and tomography - Benjamin Bromberger (Physikalisch- Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany and RI Research Instruments GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany)

11:40 The LENS facility in 2015 - David Baxter (LENS, Indiana University)

12:00 Intense Resonance Neutron Source at JINR: Status and Perspectives - Valery Shvetsov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

12:20 RIKEN accelerator-driven compact neutron source RANS - Yoshie OTAKE (RIKEN)

12:40 Recent activity of Japan Collaboration of Accelerator driven Neutron Sources (JCANS) - Yoshiaki Kiyanagi (Nagoya University)

13:00 Current Status of the Hokkaido University Neutron Source (HUNS) - Michihiro Furusaka (Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University)

14:20 LNL irradiation facilities for radiation damage studies - Serena Mattiazzo (PD)
14:40
14:40 - 17:30
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

14:40 Design of neutron moderators for ESS - Konstantin Batkov (European Spallation Source ESS AB, Lund, Sweden)

15:00 to be defined

15:20 High Brilliant Neutron Source - Juelich - Tobias Cronert (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

16:10 Moderator Studies on Simple Geometries - Knud Thomsen (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:30 Analysis of the premoderator temperature effect on the Moderator Brightness of a simple TMR model system - Rolando Granada (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina)

16:50 Development of compound neutron moderator structures for small accelerator based neutron sources. - Chris Franklyn (Necsa)

17:10 High power laser driven neutron source and application - Aaron Alejo (Queen's University of Belfast)
17:30 Bus to Padova
Bus to Padova
17:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula "Villi"

19:30 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Sala Rossini
Friday, 15 May 2015

08:30 Bus to LNL
Bus to LNL
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

09:00 The SPES High Power ISOL production target - Alberto Andrighetto (INFN Laboratori di Legnaro)

09:20 ANEM: a rotating composite neutron production target for Single Event Effects Studies at the 70 MeV Cyclotron of LNL-INFN - Luca Silvestrin (PD)

09:40 The high power target for LENOS Project at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro of INFN-LNL - Pierfrancesco Mastinu (LNL)

10:00 Target choice for SARAF thermal neutron source - Ido Silverman (Soreq)

10:20 Experiment and Simulation of plasma window - Kun Zhu (Peking University)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Aula "Villi"
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

11:10 MUNES project: an intense Multidisciplinar Neutron Source for BNCT and other applications based on a high intensity RFQ accelerator - Andrea Pisent (LNL)

11:30 Simulations of the high energy beam transport section (HEBT) at FRANZ - Ole Hinrichs (IAP Frankfurt)

11:50 Beam extraction and delivery at compact neutron sources - Ferenc Mezei (European Spallation Source ESS AB)

12:10 High intensity beams activities at CEA/Saclay - Nicolas Chauvin (CEA, DSM/Irfu)

12:30 Commissioning of the 3-MeV proton and neutron beam lines at CPHS: A status report on accelerator and neutron activities at Tsinghua University - Xuewu Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
12:50
12:50 - 13:10
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

12:50 Geant4 Simulation of the n_TOF Spallation Target - Jorge Lerendegui (Universidad de Sevilla)
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 14:10
Room: Aula "Villi"
14:10
14:10 - 16:20
Room: Aula "Villi"
Contributions

14:10 UCANS Before UCANS - John M. Carpenter (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:30 The Union for Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources: Past, Present, and Prospects - Chun Loong (Retired)
16:20 Bus to Padova
Bus to Padova
16:20 - 16:50