https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2011-11032-5
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Neutron-rich isotope production using the uranium carbide multi-foil SPES target prototype
1
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, viale dell’Università 2, 35020, Legnaro (PD), Italy
2
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Università di Padova, via Venezia 1, 35131, Padova, Italy
3
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Padova, via Marzolo 1, 35131, Padova, Italy
4
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, 37831, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
* e-mail: daniele.scarpa@lnl.infn.it
Received:
14
October
2010
Accepted:
2
February
2011
Published online:
4
March
2011
In the framework of the R&D program for the SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) project of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), production yields of neutron-rich isotopes have been measured at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA). This experiment makes use of the multi-foil SPES target prototype composed of 7 uranium carbide discs, with excess of graphite (ratio C/U = 4 . 77 isotopes of medium mass (between 72 and 141amu), produced via proton-induced fission of uranium using a 40MeV proton beam, have been collected and analyzed for the target heated at 2000 ° C target temperature.
© SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011
