Neutron flux characterization of the Kansas State University TRIGA Mark II’s Northeast Beam Port

dc.contributor.authorBoyington, John Charles
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-19T18:07:39Z
dc.date.available2019-08-19T18:07:39Z
dc.date.graduationmonthAugust
dc.date.issued2019-08-01
dc.description.abstractA high-resolution, multi-dimensional flux characterization was performed for the Kansas State University TRIGA Mark II’s Northeast Beam Port for the purpose of informing future experimental work, such as detector characterization, done using the beam. First, the Beam Port geometry was added to the existing reactor model. Then the in-core fission rates were tallied using MCNP to provide a source term for the beam transport. The program ADVANTG was used for automated generation of weight windows to accelerate the convergence of tallies in the beam port model. A tally was then collected at the end of the beam port and results are presented. Results from this tally were used to produce simulated responses and response functions for two detectors: a gold foil-based passive spectrometer and a standard set of Bonner Spheres. An experiment was conducted with both measurement devices to obtain responses. These measurements showed decent shape agreement and a small magnitude bias relative to the simulated results. Finally, the measurements, simulated flux, and response functions were used to unfold a final set of spectra using three different unfolding techniques. The Doroshenko directed divergence and Gravel (modified Sand-II) methods produced physically-realistic spectra which successfully fit the measured data, while MAXED did not.
dc.description.advisorJeremy A. Roberts
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science
dc.description.departmentDepartment of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
dc.description.levelMasters
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2097/40093
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherKansas State University
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dc.subjectNeutron Spectrometry Beam TRIGA
dc.titleNeutron flux characterization of the Kansas State University TRIGA Mark II’s Northeast Beam Port
dc.typeThesis

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