Roohalah Mirzaeian; Seyede Nasrin HoseiniMotlagh; Mahboobeh Shaghaghian
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In recent years, various designs for controlled thermonuclear fusion based on the p11B reaction have been reviewed and optimized. In this article, to innovate in achieving a better power and energy gain of neutron-free p11B fusion reaction, the improvement of the cross-section and also the kinetic effects. ...
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In recent years, various designs for controlled thermonuclear fusion based on the p11B reaction have been reviewed and optimized. In this article, to innovate in achieving a better power and energy gain of neutron-free p11B fusion reaction, the improvement of the cross-section and also the kinetic effects. Then, the effects of bremsstrahlung radiation and ion and electron energy exchange rate have been evaluated by introducing relativistic effects and its role on improving fusion energy gain. As a result, the temperature of the electron is kept lower than that of the ion, which improves fuel performance. Finally, it leads to an increase in the number of protons at higher energies compared to the pure Maxwellian distribution and it causes a significant increase in reactivity compared to previous research. Also, the number of alpha particles obtained through calculations coincides with the latest research and leads to an enhancement of approximately 13%. This means that by improving the fusion cross-section of p11B, our calculations show that considering the avalanche effects, the range of achievable energy gain in the temperature range of 300 to 500 keV and the stable characteristic time of 0.64 ps reaches 89 to 111. While in the same temperature range and with the stable characteristic time of 0.74 ps, regardless of the improved cross-section, the energy gain range is 75 to 98.
Mahya Pazoki; Hamid Jafari; Zohreh Gholamzadeh
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Neutron data and cross-sections are highly regarded and are essential for developing nuclear equipment such as advanced fission and fusion reactors, accelerators, neutron shielding, physics studies, etc. The neutron cross-section should preferably be measured using a single-energy neutron beam, although ...
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Neutron data and cross-sections are highly regarded and are essential for developing nuclear equipment such as advanced fission and fusion reactors, accelerators, neutron shielding, physics studies, etc. The neutron cross-section should preferably be measured using a single-energy neutron beam, although the presence of a background in research reactors can affect its accurate determination. The Neutron Powder Diffraction (NPD) facility of Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) has been taken into consideration for measuring the neutron cross-section based on its properties, including neutron monochromator and multiple collimators. In this work, radiative capture cross-sections of Au, In, and Rh materials have been calculated using TRR monochromatic beam. MCNPX is a Monte Carlo particle transport code that has been applied to simulate the measurement system of the neutron cross-section and calculate the reaction rates. The effect of the presence and absence of different sections of the background on the cross-section values was investigated and the results were compared with EXFOR data library for validation. According to the findings, neutron backgrounds can have varying impacts depending on factors such as sample material, the isotope resonance regions, neutron source spatial distribution, and neutron monochromatic energy. However, the presence of fast neutron background contributes to the most uncertainty in the cross section values while its removal produces an average discrepancy from experimental libraries of 7.16%. Also, removing the cold neutron background also causes a relative difference equal to 7.65%.
