| Autor: |
Tom Anderson, Ronald Edwards, Kevin Bright, Andrew Kovanen, Yaron Danon, Brian Moretti, Jeffrey Musk, Mike Shannon, Don Gillich, Floyd D. McDaniel, Barney L. Doyle |
| Rok vydání: |
2011 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
AIP Conference Proceedings. |
| ISSN: |
0094-243X |
| Popis: |
The Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Center (NSERC), a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) office located at the United States Military Academy (USMA), sponsors and manages cadet and faculty research in support of DTRA objectives. Cadets in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering at USMA are using pyroelectric crystals to ionize and accelerate residual gas trapped inside a vacuum system. A system using two lithium tantalate crystals with associated diagnostics was designed and is now operational. X‐ray energies of approximately 150 keV have been achieved. Future work will focus on developing a portable neutron generator using the D‐D nuclear fusion process. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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