Study on induced radioactivity of China Spallation Neutron Source

China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is the first High Energy Intense Proton Accelerator planned to be constructed in China during the State Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, whose induced radioactivity is very important for occupational disease hazard assessment and environmental impact assessment. Adopting the FLUKA code, the authors have constructed a cylinder-tunnel geometric model and a line-source sampling physical model, deduced proper formulas to calculate air activation, and analyzed various issues with regard to the activation of different tunnel parts. The results show that the environmental impact resulting from induced activation is negligible, whereas the residual radiation in the tunnels has a great influence on maintenance personnel, so strict measures should be adopted.     

Beam collimation for CSNS/RCS

The current design of the CSNS/RCS beam collimation system consists of a two-stage betatron collimation and a single momentum collimator. This paper summarizes various aspects of collimator design, including collimation principle and layout, material choice and collimator mechanical structure, etc. At last,radiation and thermal analysis are carried out to illustrate the feasibility of the current beam collimation scheme.     

Beam collimation for CSNS/RCS

The current design of the CSNS/RCS beam collimation system consists of a two-stage betatron collimation and a single momentum collimator. This paper summarizes various aspects of collimator design, including collimation principle and layout, material choice and collimator mechanical structure, etc. At last, radiation and thermal analysis are carried out to illustrate the feasibility of the current beam collimation scheme.     

The Contribution of the Fourth Order Exchange Diagrams to The Relativistic Microscopic Optical Potential

The contribution of the fourth order exchange diagrams is first studied to the imaginary part of nucleon self-energy,the relativistic microscopic optical potential and the Schrodinger equivalent potential of the relativistic microscopic optical potential based on Walecka's meson-nucleon model.     

Neutron Relativistic Phenomenological and Microscopic Optical Potentials

The experimental data of the neutron total cross section σ_t,nonelastic cross section σ_non and elastic scattering angular distribution σ_el(θ) for ten target nuclei ranging from ¹²C to ²³⁸U with incident energies E_n=20—1000MeV were used to optimize the relativistic phenomenological optical potential (RPOP) through automatic search of the best parameters by computer.In addition,a relativistic microscopic optical potential (RMOP) based on Walecka model were also used to analyze the same data and compare with the RPOP.
Through comparison between these two kinds of relativistic optical potential hints in improving both the RMOP and RPOP is indicated.     

Biosorption of Cadmium by Phanerochaete Chrysosporium

The biosorption properties of cadmium(Ⅱ) by pre-treated biomass of Phanerochaete chrysosporium in the form of pellet were investigated. It was found that formaldehyde cross-linking and subsequent alkaline treatment could significantly improve the adsorption capacity of the biomass compared to other sorts of treatments, such as calcium chloride treatment, HCl treatment and,acetone treatment. Biosorption capacity of cadmium was examined as a function of physical and chemical factors including the pH of the metal solution pellet size, temperature and biomass concentration. The cadmium removal efficiency was strongly affected by pH. The maximal adsorption occurred around pH4.5. The pellet size also had a marked influence on the cadmium removal efficiency and the optimum size was the diameter range of 1.5-2.0 mm. The effect of biosorption temperature on cadmium uptake was inconspicuous between 25℃ and 35℃, but there was a notable decrease in cadmium uptake when the temperature reached 40℃. The cadmium removal efficiency increased as the biomass concentration when the initial cadmium ion concentration was 10 mg/L. When the biomass concentration was 2 g/L,the removal efficiency was 99.56%. However, the augment of the. removal efficiency was not obvious when the biomass concentration was more than 2 g/L. On the optimum conditions mentioned above,cadmium concentration could be reduced from 10 ppm down to 0.04 ppm that was below the Chinese National Waste Water Integrated Discharge Standard. In the biosotption process, most of the metal uptake happened during a short period immediately after the adsorption process started. It was observed that the biomass pellets had already adsorbed 83.36% of the total amount of cadmium finally adsorbed within the initial 10 minutes. The cadmium uptake rate decreased gradually afterwards. Sorption equilibrium could almost be established in 12 hours. This indicated that biosorption might consist of two processes:a fast surface binding process opcurring first and a slow membrane diffusion process taking place subsequently.     

Modified Newton-DSS method for solving a class of systems of nonlinear equations with complex symmetric Jacobian matrices

Numerical Algorithms - Double-step scale splitting (DSS) iteration method is proved to be an unconditionally convergent iteration method, which is also efficient and robust for solving a class of...     

Microscopic study of ~7Li-nucleus potential

A microscopic approach is employed to study the optical potential for the 7Li-nucleus interaction system without any free parameters.It is obtained by folding the microscopic optical potentials of the constituent nucleons of 7Li over their density distributions.We employ an isospin-dependent nucleon microscopic optical potential,which is based on the Skyrme nucleon-nucleon effective interaction and derived using the Green's function method,as the nucleon optical potential.The harmonic oscillator shell model is used to describe the internal wave function of 7Li and obtain the nucleon density distribution.The 7Li microscopic optical potential is used to predict the reaction cross-sections and elastic scattering angular distributions for the target range from 27Al to 208Pb and energy range below 450 MeV.Generally,the results can reproduce the measured data reasonably well.In addition,the microscopic optical potential is comparable to a global phenomenological optical potential by fitting the presently existing measured data.     

MICROSCOPIC OPTICAL POTENTIAL CALCULATION BY THE MODIFIED SKYRME FORCES WITH THE t3ρα TERM

The real part and the imaginary part of the optical potential and their volume integrals per nucleon for ⁴⁰Ca and ²⁰⁸Pb are calculated on the basis of the modified Skyrme-forces with the t₃ρ^α term (α<1) which was developed recently. The calculated results and their comparison with the phenomenological optical potential and empirical values show that the nuclear force parameters of SKa and SKb are the best, SGI is the next and the others are rather bad.     

Simulation of a modified neutron detector applied in CSNS

We simulate the response of a modified Anderson-Braun rem counter in the energy range from thermal energy to about 10 GeV using the FLUKA code. Also, we simulate the lethargy spectrum of CSNS outside the beam dump. Traditional BF3 tube is replaced by the 3He tube, a layer of 0.6 cm lead is added outside the boron doped plastic attenuator and a sphere configuration is adopted. The simulation result shows that its response is exactly fit to H＊（10） in the neutron energies between 10 keV and approximately 1 GeV, although the monitor slightly underestimates H＊（10） in the energy range from thermal energy to about 10 keV. According to the characteristics of the CSNS, this modified counter increases the neutron energy response by 30% compared with the traditional monitors, and it can be applied in other kinds of stray field rich of high eeergy neutrons.