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Working Group 6
Nuclear Physics Tools and Applications
With contributions from : A. Aloisio (Università and INFN Napoli), M. Caccia (Università
dell’Insubria and INFN Milano), F. Javier Santos (CNA Sevilla), A. Letourneau (CEA/Irfu), P.A.
Mandò (INFN Florence), G. Pappalardo (INFN-LNS), P. Pelican (Lubljana), M.A. Respaldiza
(CNA, Sevilla), F.P. Romano (INFN-LNS), J.C. Sublet (Culham Centre, UK), M. Toulemonde
(CIMAP, Caen), C. Vockenhuber (ETH, Zurich), M. Winter (IRES, Strasbourg)
Marie Curie and her daughter Irène at the Hoogstade The Birth of the Atomic Age was captured by Gary Sheahan to remember Enrico Fermi,
Hospital in Belgium, 1915. Copyright © Association Chicago Pile-1 and the first sustained nuclear chain reaction. Used with permission of the
Curie Joliot-Curie Chicago Historical Society.
D+ Beam Neutrons
Fusion reactors
(40 MeV, 2x 125 mA) (~1017n/s)
Li Free
Surface
ITER, DEMO
10 MW
Specimens
data for:
dn/d(lnE)
– Existing reactors (increase of fuel burn- 101
important infrastructures:
– n-ToF (CERN) 2nd phase with the construction of the short
flight path
– NFS at SPIRAL2 especially for fusion relevant data
– FAIR/NUSTAR: DESPEC-MATS for structure data, R3B-ELISE
for reaction studies
– HIE-ISOLDE, GANIL for surrogate reactions studies
Education, training and know-how preservation
• Recommendations
Support to small scale facilities and unique
installations
Fundamental studies should be encouraged
Effort on evaluation should be increased and
involvement of theoreticians in nuclear reaction
models development should be encouraged so that
European measurements contribute to European
libraries and transport codes
Improvement of the relations between fundamental
physicists, reactor physicists, theoreticians,
evaluators and end-users (networking)
Coordinated European action for radioactive target
production and handling
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Life science
Radioisotope production
– 99Mo/99mTc supply and alternative methods
for 99Mo production
– β+ emitters, metal radionuclides for PET
imaging
– Production in-situ of short lived isotopes
– radiotracers in drug development
role of nuclear physics
– Production of novel radioisotopes: reaction cross-sections,
improved production techniques using e.g. new
radiochemistry schemes, targets sustaining high intensities…
– The very high sensitivity of AMS for 14C detection permits
studies of the metabolism and kinetics of substances labeled
with very small quantities of 14C
Particle therapy
– Many proton centers now operating in the
world, more in preparation
– Development of carbon therapy: Heidelberg
(Germany); projects: ETOILE (France), CNAO
(Italy), MedAustron (Austria)
Imaging
– Macroscopic imaging systems providing
anatomical and physiological information: CT,
MRI….
– Systems providing molecular, functional
information: PET, SPECT…
Radioprotection/radiobiology
– Accurate assessment of doses received
during medical treatment (and more generally
after some exposition)
– Understanding of low dose effects:
bystander/abscopal effects (effects in
cells/organs not directly exposed), hormesis
(low doses protect from high dose
exposure)…
• Recommendations
Access to beam time and adequate equipment at
NP facilities should be guarantied
Links between fundamental (physics and biology),
applied research and medical centers should be
reinforced
• Space applications
Radiation hazard in space
– Assessing radiation risk of astronauts on low earth orbits (ISS,
space shuttle) or on mission to the Moon or Mars due to Solar
Particle Events and Galactic Cosmic Rays
– Radiation damage to electronics (single-event upset)
Simulation codes for radiation risk assessment
– Measurement of relevant data (p to Fe induced reactions)
– Development of nuclear reaction models
Nuclear power sources for satellites and spacecrafts
• Recommendations
profit from the strong interest in climate change
studies to (re)-build highly trained teams, in
particular in AMS techniques
support to cross-disciplinary projects
challenges:
– high intensity portable neutron generator,
– improved spectroscopic gamma-ray scintillators, e.g.
medium energy resolution material such as cadmium zinc
telluride (CZT) and LaBr3 for Eγ up to 3MeV, Ge using gamma
tracking for location of isotopes
– development of improved non flammable neutron
scintillators with digital neutron/gamma separation
– Nuclear data (photonuclear reactions, delayed n and γ)
Non-proliferation control
– Measuring traces of nuclear materials with
AMS, γ-spectrometry (also for accidental
comtamination)
High sensitivity detection methods
• Recommendations
Further mechanisms need to be established :
– to encourage knowledge transfer between
academic nuclear community and industry
– to protect the investment in training the younger
generation through graduated and post graduate
programmes
Material structuring
– adjusting the structuring depth via beam energy, writing
structures with microbeams, placing individual ions at defined
positions
– ion tracks with MeV-GeV HI produces nanopores in membranes
(commercial filters, cell cultivation substrates, synthesis of
nanowires)
• Recommendations
fundamental understanding needed to go
beyond today’s “cook and look” approach
promising trends that should be further
promoted providing suitable beams and warranting
sufficiently frequent access to nuclear-physics
dominated facilities
favour closer interlink between the existing
complementary facilities within Europe (e.g. FP6
ITS LEIF, FP7 SPIRIT)
400 Ca
Counts
200
100 Si
Na
P
K
• Recommendations
A European network of AMS facilities
exchange of information between the different fields
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New frontiers in Nuclear Physics tools
• Accelerators
High-power accelerators
– Synergies between fondamental research (SPIRAL2, EURISOL) and
applications: ADS (MYRRHA), spallation sources (ESS), IFMIF…
• Accelerators
Plasma-based accelerators
– May revolutionize the field leading to much
cheaper and compact systems for instance for
hadrontherapy
– Technology not yet mature, questions about
achievable intensities, beam qualities…
Magnets
– R&D on magnets for accelerators useful for
different industrial and medical application, in
particular for NMR applications One of the first Silicon Photomultipliers
(SiPM) produced by IRST (Trento, Italy)