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Physical design and evaluation of a high-intensity accelerator-based D-D/D-T fusion neutron source

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A high-intensity accelerator-based D-D/D-T fusion neutron source (ZF-400) with a thick adsorption target is designed with an intensity of \( 10^{13}\) n/s. A high-current microwave ion source is used to produce a large current deuteron beam, and neutrons are generated by irradiating the deuteron beam on a deuterium-adsorption target or tritium-adsorption target. According to the particle-in-cell (PIC) code, the length of the whole high-current D+ beam transport line is 500cm, the D+ beam transfer efficiency is up to 96%, and various components can match each other. On the rotating target, the D+ beam spot size is about 20.0 mm with energy of 450 keV. Based on the heat conduction theory, the thick adsorption rotating target with water-cooling can withstand the D+ ions beam with 450 kV/50 mA and ensure that the temperature is less than 200 °C. According to the multi-layer computing model, neutron energy spectra, angular distributions and yields for the thick target can be calculated with remarkable precision. The neutron energy spectra are non-mono-energetic neutrons for the ZF-400 neutron generator, the neutron angular distributions are anisotropic distributions, and they can provide neutrons with an intensity of \( 2.8\times 10^{11}\) n/s (D-D) and \( 1.4\times 10^{13}\) n/s (D-T), respectively, with the deuteron of 450 keV/50 mA.

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  1. School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, China

    Z. Wei, C. Han, S. H. Peng, X. H. Bai, C. Q. Liu, Z. W. Ma, Z. W. Huang, S. J. Zhang, W. M. Li, Z. E. Yao, W. S. Wu, Y. Zhang, X. L. Lu, J. R. Wang, X. D. Su & D. P. Xu

  2. Engineering Research Center for Neutron Application, Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, 730000, Lanzhou, China

    Z. Wei, Z. E. Yao, W. S. Wu, Y. Zhang, X. L. Lu, J. R. Wang, X. D. Su & D. P. Xu

  3. Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China

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Wei, Z., Han, C., Peng, S.H. et al. Physical design and evaluation of a high-intensity accelerator-based D-D/D-T fusion neutron source. Eur. Phys. J. A 55, 162 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2019-12848-5

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