Nuclear Physics And Gamma Ray Sources For Nuclear Security And Nonproliferation

Download or read book Nuclear Physics and Gamma-Ray Sources for Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation written by Takehito Hayakawa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear nonproliferation is a critical global issue. A key technological challenge to ensuring nuclear nonproliferation and security is the detection of long-lived radioisotopes and fissionable nuclides in a non-destructive manner. This technological challenge requires new methods for detecting relevant nuclides and the development of new quantum-beam sources. For example, one new method that has been proposed and studied is nuclear resonance fluorescence with energy-tunable, monochromatic gamma-rays generated by Compton scattering of laser photons with electrons. The development of new methods requires the help of researchers from a wide range of fields, such as nuclear physics, accelerator physics, laser physics, etc. Furthermore, any new method must be compatible with the requirements of administrators and nuclear-material inspectors. Contents:PrefaceOral Presentations:Nuclear Science and Applications with the Next Generation of High-Power Lasers and Brilliant Low-Energy Gamma Beams at ELI-NP (S Gales)New Non-Intrusive Inspection Technologies for Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation (R J Ledoux)Development of Gamma-Ray Nondestructive Detection and Assay Systems for Nuclear Safeguards and Security at JAEA (R Hajima)Photonuclear Reaction Studies at HIγS: Developing the Science of Remote Detection of Nuclear Materials (C R Howell)Dipole Strength Around the Particle Threshold (D Savran)Resonant Photonuclear Reactions for Neutrino Nuclear Responses and Nuclear Isotope Detections (H Ejiri)Non-Destructive Testing for Control of Radioactive Waste Package (S Plumeri and F Carrel)Development of First Responders Equipment at RN Incident Sites (K Tsuchiya et al.)Compact Short-Pulsed Electron Linac Based Neutron Sources for Precise Nuclear Material Analysis (M Uesaka et al.)Laser-Driven Plasma Deceleration of Electron Beams for Compact Photon Sources (J-L Vay et al.)Advanced Laser-Compton Gamma-Ray Sources for Nuclear Materials Detection, Assay and Imaging (C P J Barty)Compact Gamma-Beam Source for Nuclear Security Technologies (P Gladkikh and J Urakawa)Developments of Optical Resonators and Optical Recirculators for Compton X/γ Ray Machines (A Martens)Low-Lying “Pygmy” Dipole Resonances and Strength Functions (V Werner et al.)NRF-Based NDA of Nuclear Material Using Monochromatic γ-Ray Beam (T Shizuma et al.)Improving the Assay of 239Pu in Spent and Melted Fuel Using the Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Integral Resonance Transmission Method (C T Angell et al.)Laser Compton Scattering Gamma-Ray Beam Source at NewSUBARU Storage Ring (S Miyamoto et al.)Energy Calibration of Electron and Gamma-Ray Beams at NewSUBARU-GACKO (T Shima and H Utsunomiya)A Paradigm for the Nondestructive Assay of Spent Fuel Assemblies and Similar Large Objects, with Emphasis on the Role of Photon-Based Techniques (A M Bolind)Medium Modification of α Cluster Size in 6Li (T Yamagata et al.)Noninvasive Reactor Imaging Using Cosmic-Ray Muons (H Miyadera et al.)Compton Radiation for Nuclear Waste Management and Transmutation (E Bulyak and J Urakawa)Compact Intense Neutron Generators Based on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement of D-D Fusion Plasmas (K Masuda et al.)NRF Based Nondestructive Inspection System for SNM by Using Laser-Compton-Backscattering Gamma-Rays (H Ohgaki et al.)Development of Measurement Methods for Detection of Special Nuclear Materials Using D-D Pulsed Neutron Source (T Misawa et al.)SOFIA, a Next-Generation Facility for Fission Yields Measurements and Fission Study. First Results and Perspectives (L Audouin et al.)Present Status of Nuclear Data for Nuclear Nonproliferation (M Igashira)Development of the Experimental Photo-Nuclear Reaction Database in Hokkaido University (A Makinaga)Laser-Compton Scattering Photon Beams and Other Gamma-Ray Sources: Project for Coherent Gamma-Ray Source on Basis of Femtosecond Laser at ILC MSU (V G Nedorezov and A B Savelév)Laser Driven Ion Acceleration Study in JAEA (K Kondo)Status of New JENDL Photonuclear Data File (K Kosako et al.)Nuclear Research with Eγ≤15 MeV Photons (C Rangacharyulu)IRIDE: Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure Based on Dual Electron Linac and Laser (M Ferrario)Poster Presentations:A Study of the Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Reaction Yield Dependence on the Target Thickness of 208PB (H Negm et al.)Photodisintegration Reactions with Linear Polarized γ-Ray Beam (T Hayakawa et al.)Test Experiment of γ-Ray Diffraction for Crystal Monochromators (S Matsuba et al.)Overview of Laser Compton-scattered Photon Source at the cERL (R Nagai et al.)Development of a High-Brightness and High-Current Electron Gun for High-Flux γ-Ray Generation (N Nishimori et al.)Design of ERL Spoke Cavity for Non-Destructive Assay Research (M Sawamura et al.)Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Muon-Capture X-Rays and Its Application to Nuclear Material Detection (Y Shimbara et al.)Active Neutron-Based Interrogation System with D-D Neutron Source for Detection of Special Nuclear Materials (Y Takahashi et al.)Closing Summary:Summary Comments: Nuclear Physics and Gamma-Ray Sources for Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation (C P J Barty) Readership: Researchers and professionals in the field of nuclear physics. Keywords:Nuclear Nonproliferation;Long-lived Radioisotopes;Fissionable Nuclides;Compton Scarttering;Monochromatic Gamma-rays;Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence;Nuclear Physics