ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
A Texas Nuclear Cockcroft–Walton neutron generator was refurbished for use as a general fusion-product source. This well-calibrated source is now used routinely for characterizing energetic charged-particle detectors, for the development of nuclear fusion diagnostics, for studying radiation damage, and for calibrating x-ray detectors for laboratory and space plasmas. This paper is an overview of the facility. We describe the main accelerator operating systems, the primary fusion reactions studied, and several diagnostics used to characterize the fusion-product source.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1143576
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