Proposal

Purpose

We propose the construction of a beam monitoring system that will be used to optimize photon flux and increase the efficiency of isotope production at least two fold. Current research on accelerator driven isotope production of Copper has shown a strong dependence of the resulting isotope activity on the ability to align the photon flux to the target isotope sample. A photon flux monitor will be constructed to measure the photon flux region and facilitate an alignment of the optimum sized sample to the highest photon flux region in order to optimize the production of isotopes.

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