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Revision as of 18:10, 28 April 2015
Development of a Positron source using a PbBi converter and a Solenoid
Converter target properties
Definition of Lead Bismuth
1cm diameter target
2 mm thick PbBi
0.5 Tesla solenoid
G4BeamLine and MCNPX
Target thickness optimization
First simple test is to send 1 million, 10 MeV electrons towards a PbBi target and count how many positrons leave the downstream side
The Random number seed is set by Time in G4beamline to use a different set of pseudo random numbers each time it is run
| PbBi Thickness (mm) | #positrons/million electrons (G4Beamline) | #positrons/million electrons (MCNPX) |
| 1 | 960 | |
| 1.5 | 1508 | |
| 2 | 1963 | 1984 |
| 2.5 | 1997 | |
| 3 | 2233 | |
| 3.5 | 2193 | |
| 4 | 2184 | 1858 |
| 5 | 2042 | |
| 6 | 1851 | |
| 10 | 1480 |