TF IsotopeTracers

MRI RFP

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13517/nsf13517.htm

Highlights.

"MRI is not used to buy a suite of insturments to outfit research laboratories/facilities or be used to conduct independent research activities simultaneously".

"MRI is used for a single insturment or when combined serves as an integrated instrument."

The photon flux monitor when combined with the rabbit will be an instrument for both isotope production and PAA analysis research. The tool will have inter-disciplinary uses ranging from engineering to archeology.

Proposal

Purpose

In June of 2012, the Idaho Accelerator Center received a grant from the state of Idaho as part of the Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission (IGEM) program. One of the proposed objectives was to research the production of Copper isotopes for use in medical diagnostic procedures. Preliminary results of the work sponsored by this research have indicated that the production of Copper isotopes has a strong dependence on the photon flux alignment with the target isotope sample. An optimal sample size to maximize production has also been determine. Based on these results, a strong need now exists for a system to monitoring the spatial distribution of the photons used to irradiate the samples. We propose the construction of a beam monitoring system that will be used to optimize photon flux and thereby increasing the efficiency of isotope production at least two fold.

Talking points

1.) The accelerator "Jack" is an instrument for PAA and isotope production

2.) Isotope production impact on other areas of research (medical, fracking, underground pipelines, spikants for homeland security)

3.) Inter organizational use of PAA ( Geology, Archeology, certification for coffee origins....)

4.) Impact of Photon Flux monitoring for PAA analysis

5.) Device will train accelerator physicists, nuclear chemists, ...

Budget

Equipment list

two steps

1.) purchase single crystal detector from http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/091104_nuc_galbiati.pdf

2.) get http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/091104_nuc_galbiati.pdf to build a pixelated 3 x 3 cm detector with .5 x .5 cm size pixels (36 pixels)

Cost	Device	Purpose
50,000	BPMs	4 electron beam position monitors and steering coils
20,000	16, CVD Diamond detector	Off the shelf single crystal single pixel detector pg 49 in[ http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/091104_nuc_galbiati.pdf]
10,000	20 , 5 x 5 mm^2 CVD films	films for pixel detector array
30,000	Flanges and crosses	Beam line components to install BPMs & steering coils
10,000	Circuitry	PCB board, connectors, and single crystal mounting by external vendor
30,000	beam time	3 weeks of beam time to test device and measure performance
$28,000	DAQ	VME based DAQ system with EPICs monitoring, 32 channel ADC ($6k), ROC($3k), MiniCrate($4k), Server ($2k), Tigger supervisor ($3k), NIM Discriminator /Trigger/ECL output module ($10k)

References

Nitrogen tracers: N-15 is rare. If you dope nitrogen sources with it you can see where the leak into environment. This is a stable tracer so it would be able to monitor long time plume expansions.

Catchment hydrology

High Flux MeV photon profiler

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/p99/PAPERS/WEA90.PDF

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5379507/5398121/05398374.pdf?tp=&arnumber=5398374&isnumber=5398121

CVD Diamond film

Film Vendor only

http://www.e6cvd.com/cvd/page.jsp?pageid=415

Alemeda Applied Sciences Corporation

http://www.aasc.net/drds http://www.aasc.net/media/DRD-AppNote.pdf

Diamond x-ray view screen http://www.diamond-materials.com/EN/products/cvd_for_xray/fluorescence_beam_monitors.htm

http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/091104_nuc_galbiati.pdf

NIM paper from 2002

http://144.206.159.178/ft/787/47160/14168748.pdf

Diamond Detectors LtD (Vendor for single crystal Chip on Board Package)

http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/091104_nuc_galbiati.pdf