HRRL radiation tests

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Building a new positron beamline in the HRRL cell might require moving the linac itself. To help assess whether this is feasible with current shielding, radiation levels were measured on Feb 4, 2009 by M. Balzer and G. Stancari.

The HRRL was set at 15 MeV beam energy, 20 mA peak current, 1 kHz repetition rate, and 30 ns pulse width. Five OSL dosimeters (For Details on OSL dosimeter, look [[1]]) were placed at each of 15 locations in the cell. Locations are marked on the following map:

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Readings in mrad are reported in the following table. They were taken before exposure (first column) and after a couple of minutes of machine tuning (second column). Readings in the third column were taken 94 minutes after the second reading. During these 94 minutes, the machine was running with the settings mentioned above.

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Dose rates in mrad/hr at each of the 15 locations can be estimated by subtracting column 2 from column 3, averaging over the 5 dosimeters, and multiplying the result by (60 min/hr) / (94 min). RMS spreads refer to variations within each group of 5.

Location Dose rate RMS spread
(mrad/hr) (mrad/hr)
1 9 4
2 396 57
3 7940 204
4 2831 117
5 4408 373
6 29339 3332
7 72517 687
8 36507 4746
9 5 5
10 37 4
11 164 40
12 2734 313
13 5828 120
14 7793 2579
15 62431 27155


OSL dosimeters

Dosimeters are placed approximately 1-m off the floor. Large face of the dosimeters were facing HRRL.

Diameter of a dosimeter is measured as:

d = 7.4 mm, 7.6 mm, 7.5 mm, 7.3 mm, 7.3 mm, 7.4 mm, 7.6 mm.

so,

d = 7.44 [math]\pm [/math] 0.13 mm.

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Experimental Cell Dose Measurement with HRRL

This experiment is done on 5/17/2010, at 10:00 am.


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Dr. Khalid Chouffani wrote the note. Here is photocopy of his note:

page #1

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page #2

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Detector Used on Channel 16

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16 MeV Beam Energy

Experimental cell measurement with HRRL.

Conditions are:

Rap rate: 40 Hz

Pulse width: 1 [math]\mu sec[/math]

[math]\Delta[/math]E=(10-17) MeV

Peak current of beam (mA) Energy of beam (MeV) Measurement on Channel 17, Experimental Cell (mrad) Measurement on Channel 16, Accelerator cell (mrad)
100 16 4.5 [math]\pm [/math] 0.2 45.5 [math]\pm [/math] 2
69.2 16 4 [math]\pm [/math] 0.2 35, 42.5
60.8 16 3.5 [math]\pm [/math] 0.1 29.2, 28.9
58.0 16 2.8, 2.9 26, 26.7
47.6 16 2.3 19.6, 21.3
33.2 16 1.8, 1.7 19.5, 19.0, 13.7

Beam bear through 1/4 inches diameter collimator with 4 inches lead.


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16 MeV Beam Energy

Conditions are:

Rap rate: 40 Hz

Peak current of beam (mA) Energy of beam (MeV) Measurement on Channel 17, Experimental Cell (mrad) Measurement on Channel 16, Accelerator cell (mrad)
136 16 0.3 99.2, 98.7

10 MeV Beam Energy

Conditions are:

Rap rate: 110 Hz

[math]\Delta[/math]E=(8-16) MeV

Peak current of beam (mA) Energy of beam (MeV) Measurement on Channel 17, Experimental Cell (mrad) Measurement on Channel 16, Accelerator cell (mrad)
48.4 10 4.6, 4.7 117.6, 117.5
36.8 10 3.8, 3.9 104.4, 103.5, 102.9
30.8 10 3.1 [math]\pm [/math] 0.1 72.8, 72.9, 72.5
26 10 2.5 56.7, 56.4, 54.6


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Channel 17 Dose Estimation in New Position

Channel 17 is a dose measuring detector on in the HRRL experimental cell.

Calculating Number of Particles Per Second

We have electron beam of:

Frequency: f (Hz)

Peak current: I (mAmp = 0.001 Amp)

Pulse width: [math] \Delta[/math] t ( [math] 1 ns=1*10^{-9} [/math] seconds )

So, how many electrons we have in each second?

By Q=It, we have

                                         [math]    N*e=f*I*\Delta t [/math] 

Where N is the total electron numbers hits target per second, e is electron charge and f, I and [math] \Delta t [/math] are given above. So

                          [math]  N = f*I*\Delta t/e= f*I*\Delta t/(1.6*10^{-19}) [/math] 


Number of Particles Per Second in test by M. Balzer on Feb 4, 2009

In radiation levels measured on Feb 4, 2009 by M. Balzer and G. Stancari

Five OSL dosimeters were placed at each of 15 locations in the cell. (What is OSL? Need to ask M. Balzer)

The HRRL was set at 15 MeV beam energy, 20 mA peak current, 1 kHz repetition rate, and 30 ns pulse width.


                             [math]  N = f*I*\Delta t/e= 1000*0.02*30*10^{-9}/(1.6*10^{-19}) =3.75*10^{12} [/math] 


Number of Particles Per Second in "Experimental Cell Dose Measurement with HRRL" on 5/17/201

This is the experiment we have done on 5/17/201 to measure dose on the detector placed in the corner of the doorway.

Conditions are: Pulse width: 1 [math]\mu sec[/math], Rap rate: 110 Hz.

We measured dose for several peak current. One of the peak current is 26 mA. For this peak current:


                           [math]  N = f*I*\Delta t/e= 110*0.026*1*10^{-6}/(1.6*10^{-19}) = 1.7875*10^{13} [/math]



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