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<div class="csl-entry">Bacak, M. (2025, July 7). <i>n_ACT@BDF: A high intensity & high energy neutron activation station at the CERN Beam Dump Facility</i> [Conference Presentation]. nBHEAM 2025: Neutron Beams at High Energy: Applications and Metrology, Wien, Austria.</div>
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/224955
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The Beam Dump Facility (BDF) at CERN is a new, general-purpose intensity-frontier experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator. It is designed to search for feebly interacting GeV-scale particles and to perform measurements in neutrino physics, serving the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment (SPSC-P-369).
The high-energy (400 GeV/c), high-intensity (350 kW) proton beam from the SPS, impacting BDF’s tungsten production target, generates a unique particle spectrum, fluences, and radiation dose in the region surrounding the target. This presents an opportunity to create synergies to exploit the target complex for additional purposes, without perturbing the main physics goals of BDF and SHiP.
A Letter of Intent has been submitted by the n_TOF Collaboration for a parasitic Neutron Activation Station (n_ACT, CERN-SPSC-2024-027) to utilize the copious neutrons produced in the spallation target. Due to the high-energy and intensity proton beam, a wide-energy neutron spectrum is generated, including a large quantity of high-energy neutrons, extending up to few GeVs, which could be exploited for physics research.
This contribution will detail the scientific case, feasibility considerations, as well as the plan for a complete scientific and technical proposal by the end of 2025, aiming for a staged start-up from 2031, with full implementation by 2035.
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en
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dc.subject
n_TOF
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dc.subject
CERN
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dc.subject
BDF-SHiP
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dc.title
n_ACT@BDF: A high intensity & high energy neutron activation station at the CERN Beam Dump Facility
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Presentation
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Vortrag
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Conference Presentation
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E3
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X1
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tuw.researchTopic.name
Climate Neutral, Renewable and Conventional Energy Supply Systems
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tuw.researchTopic.name
Beyond TUW-research focus
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tuw.researchTopic.value
20
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tuw.researchTopic.value
80
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tuw.publication.orgunit
E141-04 - Forschungsbereich Neutron- and Quantum Physics
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tuw.author.orcid
0000-0001-9501-0997
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tuw.event.name
nBHEAM 2025: Neutron Beams at High Energy: Applications and Metrology
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tuw.event.startdate
07-07-2025
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tuw.event.enddate
08-07-2025
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tuw.event.online
On Site
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Event for scientific audience
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tuw.event.place
Wien
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tuw.event.country
AT
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tuw.event.institution
IAEA
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tuw.event.presenter
Bacak, Michael
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Physik, Astronomie
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1030
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100
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conference paper not in proceedings
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http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cp
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Publications
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en
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none
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no Fulltext
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E141-04 - Forschungsbereich Neutron- and Quantum Physics
