Design of a Compact Accelerator Based Neutron Source

The Mitacs Globalink Award will empower an interdisciplinary research effort which is geared towards the realization of a prototype Compact Accelerator-based Neutron Source in Canada (CANS) at the University of Windsor. Three beamlines are being planned for the CANS facility and they are intended to serve applications in materials sciences, medical sciences and fluorine-18 radioisotope production.

Critical research and development needs to be conducted on three major aspects of the CANS infrastructure – the source, neutron transport and beamline instrumentation. The collaboration with Forschungszentrum Jülich will provide key training to Canadian researchers in the use of the Vitess software package which is utilized for modeling neutron instrument performance. This project will be geared towards the optimization of neutron transport and instrumentation for the small-angle neutron scattering instrument.

Faculty Supervisor:

Drew Marquardt

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Partner:

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Clean Technology; Biotechnology; Quantum Science

University:

University of Windsor

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