Experimental verification of neutron phenomenology in lead and of transmutation by adiabatic resonance crossing in accelerator driven systems - A summary of the TARC Project at CERN

A. Abanades , J. Aleixandre , S. Andriamonje (1) , A. Angelopoulos , A. Apostolakis , H. Arnould , E. Belle (2) , C.A. Bompas , D. Brozzi , J. Bueno , S. Buono , F. Carminati , F. Casagrande , P. Cennini , J.I. Collar , E. Cerro , R. del Moral (1) , S. Diez , L. Dumps , C. Eleftheriadis , M. Embid , R. Fernandez , J. Galvez , J. Garcia , C. Geles , A. Giorni (2) , E. Gonzalez , O. Gonzalez , I. Goulas , D. Heuer (2) , M. Hussonnois (3) , Y. Kadi , P. Karaiskos , G. Kitis , R. Klapisch , P. Kokkas , V. Lacoste , C. Le Naour (3) , C. Lopez , J.M. Loiseaux (2) , J.M. Martinez-Val , O. Meplan (2) , H. Nifenecker (2) , J. Oropesa , I. Papadopoulos , P. Pavlopoulos , E. Perez-Enciso , A. Perez-Navarro , M. Perlado , A. Placci , M. Poza , J.P. Revol , C. Rubbia , J.A. Rubio , L. Sakelliou , F. Saldana , E. Savvidis , F. Schussler (2) , C. Sirvent , J. Tamarit , D. Trubert (3) , A. Tzima , J.B. Viano (2) , S. Vieira , V. Vlachoudis , K. Zioutas

1 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
2 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
3 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay

The Transmutation by Adiabatic Resonance Crossing (TARC) experiment was carried out as PS211 at the CERN PS from 1996 to 1999. Energy and space distributions of spallation neutrons (produced by 2.5 and 3.57 GeV/ c CERN proton beams) slowing down in a 3.3×3.3×3 m 3 lead volume and neutron capture rates on long-lived fission fragments 99 Tc and 129 I demonstrate that Adiabatic Resonance Crossing (ARC) can be used to eliminate efficiently such nuclear waste and validate innovative simulation. (Elsevier)

Domaines: Physique Nucléaire Expérimentale [nucl-ex]

A. Abanades, J. Aleixandre, S. Andriamonje, A. Angelopoulos, A. Apostolakis, et al.. Experimental verification of neutron phenomenology in lead and of transmutation by adiabatic resonance crossing in accelerator driven systems - A summary of the TARC Project at CERN. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2001, 463, pp.586-592. ⟨10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00173-5⟩. ⟨in2p3-00009450⟩