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

May 12, 2015, 3:00 PM → May 15, 2015, 6:00 PM Europe/Rome

Aula "Villi" (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

Pierfrancesco Mastinu (LNL)

Advances in science and technology in the field of neutron science have been dominated by a fruitful combination of major international facilities supported by networks of smaller regional facilities. Recent advances in accelerator technology and neutronic design have made it possible to construct small-scale accelerator-driven neutron facilities that would be able to play a significant role in neutron technology and science. The neutron applications using compact accelerator driven neutron sources are now becoming more and more important since it can cover various fields such as material science, engineering, nuclear physics, cancer therapy, soft error and so on, therefore, they would play more significant role in the future.
To promote such activities, the Union for Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources (UCANS) was established in 2010. Following fruitful meetings held in Beijing, Bloomington, Bilbao and Sapporo, we are organizing UCANS-V at INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova), Italy.

Topics

A. Accelerators and beam optics;
B. Target radiation damage and heat removal;
C. Moderator neutronics;
D. Optical devices;
E. Neutron detection;
F. Innovative instrumentation;
G. Material characterization;
H. Other neutron applications based on CANS;
I. Nuclear astrophysics;
J. Nuclear data measurements and evaluation;
K. Medical applications;
L. Computer simulations of CANS and instrument performance and data-analysis software.

Final Information 5thUCANS_Third_Circular.pdf

Final Program UCANS_timetable_v9.6.pdf

Padova map padova-map.pdf

Tuesday, May 12

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM REGISTRATION

3:30 PM → 3:45 PM Welcome address

3:45 PM → 5:15 PM Opening Session

Convener: Dario Bisello (PD)

3:45 PM ISIS May 2015: current status and future plans

Speakers: Carla Andreani (Università di Roma Tor vergata, Centro NAST e Dipartimento Fisica), Robert McGreevy (ISIS Pulsed Neutron Source, UK)

Slides Andreani_UCANS.pdf

4:15 PM KEK activity on J-PARC neutron facility and compact neutron sources

Speaker: Takashi Ino (KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan)

Slides ino20150512.pdf

4:45 PM European Spallation Source ESS: principles, status, perspectives

Speaker: Ferenc Mezei (European Spallation Source ESS AB)

Slides UCANS-2015-opening-mezei.pdf

5:15 PM → 7:15 PM Welcome Cocktail

Wednesday, May 13

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Bus transport Padova-LNL

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM REGISTRATION

9:50 AM → 10:05 AM Welcome Address

10:05 AM → 1:45 PM Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Data

Convener: Peter Schillebeeckx (EC-JRC-IRMM)

10:05 AM Astrophysical quests for neutron capture data of unstable nuclei

Speaker: Franz Käppeler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Slides kaeppeler_final_padua.pdf

10:35 AM Neutron-capture Cross-section of 69,71Ga and 63,65Cu at 25 and 90 keV

Speaker: Clemens Beinrucker (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Slides beinrucker_Activation_Cu_and_Ga.pdf

10:55 AM Coffee Break

11:25 AM Fostering European Collaborations: EUFRAT and work done at JRC-IRMM

Speaker: Wim Mondelaers (willy.mondelaers@ec.europa.eu)

Slides LegnaroUCANSMondelaers.pdf

11:45 AM Characterization of nuclear material by neutron resonance transmission analysis

Speaker: Peter Schillebeeckx (EC-JRC-IRMM)

Slides PSCHIL_UCANS_D.Schilleebekx.pdf

12:05 PM Measurement of neutron diffraction with compact neutron source RANS

Speaker: Yoshimasa Ikeda (RIKEN)

Slides 20150513ucans_YIkeda.pdf

12:25 PM Measurement of the total cross section of heavy water in the 0.1 meV - 1 eV energy range at 20 and 50 ºC

Speaker: Jose Rolando Granada (Neutron Physics Department, Centro Atomico Bariloche)

Slides granada_measurement_charla_nyr3.pdf

12:45 PM Experimental program on Nuclear Astrophysics at the CERN n_TOF facility

Speaker: Cristian Massimi (BO)

Slides UCANS-V_MASSIMI.pdf

1:05 PM BELINA – Beam Line for Nuclear Astrophysics at LNL

Speaker: Guido Martin-Hernandez (Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear, 5ta y 30, Playa, La Habana, Cuba)

1:25 PM Neutron sources based on medical Linac

Speaker: Marco Costa (TO)

Slides Ucans_Costa.pdf

1:45 PM → 2:45 PM Lunch

2:45 PM → 3:25 PM Neutron Detection

Convener: Giuseppe Gorini (MIB)

2:45 PM A single-crystal Diamond Detector Matrix for DT plasma diagnostic

Speaker: Marica Rebai (MIB)

Slides Presentation_REBAI_M_final.pdf

3:05 PM The research of large area neutron sensitive MCP at Tsinghua University

Speaker: Yigang Yang (Tsinghua University)

Slides yang.pdf

3:25 PM → 4:25 PM Medical Applications

Convener: Yoshiaki Kiyanagi (Nagoya University)

3:25 PM Monte Carlo Simulation of Accelerator-Based Epithermal Neutron Beams for Neutron Capture Therapy

Speaker: Ignacio Porras (University of Granada, Spain)

Slides ucansV_porras_[modalità_compatibilità].pdf

3:45 PM BNCT neutron beam from accelerator

Speaker: Ian Postuma (PV)

Slides IanUCANS.pdf

4:05 PM Development of a linac-based neutron source for BNCT with beryllium three-layer neutron target system

Speaker: Takashi Nakamoto (Cosylab Japan)

Slides nakamoto_UCANS_V_20150513_public.pdf

4:25 PM → 4:40 PM Coffee Break

4:40 PM → 5:55 PM Poster Session

4:40 PM Construction of an accelerator-driven compact neutron source for BNCT in Nagoya Univeristy

Speakers: Kazuki Tsuchida (Nagoya University), Yoshiaki Kiyanagi (Nagoya University)

4:40 PM Convertible Source System of Thermal neutron and X-ray at Hokkaido University Electron Linac Facility

Speaker: Takashi Kamiyama (Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University)

4:40 PM Development of a New Exclusive Function with a Center-of- Gravity Calculation for the 2012 Model 6Li Time Analyzer Neutron Detector System

Speaker: Setsuo Satoh (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

4:40 PM Fast-Neutron Generation by Laser-Driven Deuterium Ions from Ultrathin Targets

Speaker: Aaron Alejo (Queen's University of Belfast)

4:40 PM HBS – A High Brilliant Neutron Source

Speakers: Jan Philipp Dabruck (Institute NET, RWTH Aachen University), Tobias Cronert (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

4:40 PM Imaging of static objects using laser-driven neutron source

Speaker: Seyed Reza Mirfayzi (Queen's University Belfast)

4:40 PM Improvement of Neutron Source for the Development of Non-destructive Methods Adapted for Integrity Test of Next Generation Nuclear Fuels at KURRI-LINAC

Speaker: Tadafumi Sano (Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute)

4:40 PM Radiation Effects Research at LENS

Speaker: David Baxter (LENS, Indiana University)

4:40 PM Shielding design of RIKEN Accelerator-driven Neutron Source (RANS) and brief introduction of XJTU-CANS plan

Speaker: Sheng Wang (RIKEN Institute/Xi'an Jiaotong University)

4:40 PM The ESS Hellium Cooled Target

Speaker: Sordo Fernando (Consorcio ESS-Bilbao)

4:40 PM Upgrade of the IBA dynamitron as a high-intensity proton accelerator

Speaker: Denis Joassin (IBA)

5:55 PM → 7:25 PM LNL Visit

7:25 PM → 7:55 PM Bus to Padova

8:15 PM → 10:15 PM Programme Committee Dinner

Thursday, May 14

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Bus to LNL

9:00 AM → 2:40 PM Neutron Source Facilities

Convener: Michihiro Furusaka (Hokkaido University)

9:00 AM The SPES project at LNL

Speaker: Gianfranco Prete (LNL)

Slides 150514_gp_UCANS_V_prete.pdf

9:20 AM The Helmholtz Neutron Strategy: Towards a High Brilliance Neutron Source

Speaker: Thomas Brückel (Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

9:50 AM ESS-BILBAO: On going activities

Speaker: Sordo Fernando (Consorcio ESS-Bilbao)

Slides Sordo_2015_5_UCANS_V_Padova.pdf

10:10 AM NEPIR: A neutron irradiation facility at the SPES high intensity 70 MeV Cyclotron of LNL

Speaker: Jeffery Wyss (PD)

Slides UCANS2015_Wyss_given.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM Multipurpose applications of the accelerator-based neutron source GENEPI2

Speaker: Francesca Villa (IN2P3/CNRS)

Slides Villa_presentationUCANS.pdf

11:20 AM Development of a compact, intense and ns-pulsed neutron source for the application in fast neutron radiography and tomography

Speaker: Benjamin Bromberger (Physikalisch- Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany and RI Research Instruments GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany)

Slides UCANSV_2015_Bromberger.pdf

11:40 AM The LENS facility in 2015

Speaker: David Baxter (LENS, Indiana University)

Slides Baxter_UCANS-V_LENS_overview_FINAL.pdf

12:00 PM Intense Resonance Neutron Source at JINR: Status and Perspectives

Speaker: Valery Shvetsov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

Slides ucansV_shvetsov.pdf

12:20 PM RIKEN accelerator-driven compact neutron source RANS

Speaker: Yoshie OTAKE (RIKEN)

Slides 150514UCANS5_OTAKE_RANS_Padova_dist2.pdf

12:40 PM Recent activity of Japan Collaboration of Accelerator driven Neutron Sources (JCANS)

Speaker: Yoshiaki Kiyanagi (Nagoya University)

Slides KIYANAGI_JCANS-r.pdf

1:00 PM Current Status of the Hokkaido University Neutron Source (HUNS)

Speaker: Michihiro Furusaka (Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University)

Slides M_Furusaka_HUNS_at_UCANS_150510.pdf

1:20 PM Lunch

2:20 PM LNL irradiation facilities for radiation damage studies

Speaker: Serena Mattiazzo (PD)

Slides Mattiazzo_UCANS_2015.pdf

2:40 PM → 5:30 PM Moderator Neutronics

Convener: David Baxter (LENS, Indiana University)

2:40 PM Design of neutron moderators for ESS

Speaker: Konstantin Batkov (European Spallation Source ESS AB, Lund, Sweden)

Slides Batkov.pdf

3:00 PM to be defined

3:20 PM High Brilliant Neutron Source - Juelich

Speaker: Tobias Cronert (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

Slides UCANS_2015_Cronert_5.pdf

3:40 PM Coffee Break

4:10 PM Moderator Studies on Simple Geometries

Speaker: Knud Thomsen (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides thomsen_UCANS_Padova.pdf

4:30 PM Analysis of the premoderator temperature effect on the Moderator Brightness of a simple TMR model system

Speaker: Rolando Granada (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina)

Slides Granada1.pdf

4:50 PM Development of compound neutron moderator structures for small accelerator based neutron sources.

Speaker: Chris Franklyn (Necsa)

Slides UCANS-V-Franklyn.pdf

5:10 PM High power laser driven neutron source and application

Speaker: Aaron Alejo (Queen's University of Belfast)

Slides UCANS_Alejo_web.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Bus to Padova

7:30 PM → 9:30 PM Social Dinner

Friday, May 15

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Bus to LNL

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM High Power Target

Convener: Sordo Fernando (Consorcio ESS-Bilbao)

9:00 AM The SPES High Power ISOL production target

Speaker: Alberto Andrighetto (INFN Laboratori di Legnaro)

Slides UCANS_-_Andrighetto.pdf

9:20 AM ANEM: a rotating composite neutron production target for Single Event Effects Studies at the 70 MeV Cyclotron of LNL-INFN

Speaker: Luca Silvestrin (PD)

Slides 55_Presentation_UCANS_Silvestrin.pdf

9:40 AM The high power target for LENOS Project at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro of INFN-LNL

Speaker: Pierfrancesco Mastinu (LNL)

Slides mastinu_ucans_V_v1.pdf

10:00 AM Target choice for SARAF thermal neutron source

Speaker: Ido Silverman (Soreq)

Slides TNS@SARAF-V2.pdf

10:20 AM Experiment and Simulation of plasma window

Speaker: Kun Zhu (Peking University)

Slides ZHUkun_Experiment_and_simulation_of_plasma_window.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM → 12:50 PM Accelerators and Beam Optics

Convener: Xuewu Wang (Tsinghua University)

11:10 AM MUNES project: an intense Multidisciplinar Neutron Source for BNCT and other applications based on a high intensity RFQ accelerator

Speaker: Andrea Pisent (LNL)

Slides MUNES_UCANS_2015_pisent.pdf

11:30 AM Simulations of the high energy beam transport section (HEBT) at FRANZ

Speaker: Ole Hinrichs (IAP Frankfurt)

Slides ole-hinrichs_UCANS-2015.pdf

11:50 AM Beam extraction and delivery at compact neutron sources

Speaker: Ferenc Mezei (European Spallation Source ESS AB)

Slides UCANS-15-mezei-Friday-session.pdf

12:10 PM High intensity beams activities at CEA/Saclay

Speaker: Nicolas Chauvin (CEA, DSM/Irfu)

Slides N_Chauvin_High_Intensity_Saclay.pdf

12:30 PM Commissioning of the 3-MeV proton and neutron beam lines at CPHS: A status report on accelerator and neutron activities at Tsinghua University

Speaker: Xuewu Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing)

Slides UCANS-V_report_of_CPHS_Xuewu_WANG.pdf

12:50 PM → 1:10 PM Computer Simulation

Convener: Xuewu Wang (Tsinghua University)

12:50 PM Geant4 Simulation of the n_TOF Spallation Target

Speaker: Jorge Lerendegui (Universidad de Sevilla)

Slides JLerendegui-UcansV_final.pdf

1:10 PM → 2:10 PM Lunch

2:10 PM → 4:20 PM Closure

Convener: Chun K. Loong (Retired)

2:10 PM UCANS Before UCANS

Speaker: John M. Carpenter (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides carpenter_UCANS-V_Presentation.pdf

2:30 PM The Union for Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources: Past, Present, and Prospects

Speaker: Chun Loong (Retired)

Slides Loong_UCANS-V_2015.pdf

2:50 PM Discussion: Future of UCANS

4:20 PM → 4:50 PM Bus to Padova