Upgrade of the neutron guide system at the OPAL neutron source
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2010-12-16
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Insitute of Physics
Abstract
The new research reactor at ANSTO (OPAL) is operating with seven neutron beam instruments in the user programme and three more under construction. The reactor design provides for expansion of the facility to eighteen instruments, and much of the basic infrastructure is already in place. However, an expansion of the neutron guide system is needed for further beam instruments. For this purpose, several possibilities are under consideration, such as insertion of multi-channel neutron benders in the existing cold guides or the construction of a new elliptic cold guide. In this work Monte Carlo (MC) simulations have been used to evaluate performance of these guide configurations. Results show that these configurations can be competitive with the best instruments in the world. © 2010, Insitute of Physics
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OPAL Reactor, Neutron guides, Neutron beams, Elliptical configuration, Measuring instruments, Neutron sources
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Rodriguez, D.M., Kennedy, S.J., & Klose, F. (2010). Upgrade of the neutron guide system at the OPAL neutron source. Presentation to the International Conference on Neutron Scattering 2009, 3th–7th May 2009. Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 251(1), 012065. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/251/1/012056