Speaker
Dr
Dorothea Schumann
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
Description
Exotic radionuclides such as for instance 44-Ti, 60-Fe, 26-Al, 10-Be and many others
are of great interest in several research domains like astrophysics, nuclear
medicine, geophysics, fundamental nuclear physics or radioactive beam facilities.
The production of all these nuclides in sufficient amounts is very time consuming
and extremely expensive. Conventional techniques in commercial radioisotope
production - restricted mainly on reactor-based or accelerator-driven production
routes – are approaching their limitations. Consequently, alternative production
possibilities and ways of cooperation in large basic-physics facilities are
discussed. One of these possibilities is the exploitation of accelerator waste.
At the moment, the spallation neutron source SINQ, located at the PSI, is one of the
most powerful facilities of its kind in Europe. Several long-time proton-irradiated
materials like a copper beam dump and graphite targets from th myon-production
facility are available at the moment.
The talk is aimed to give an overview on the possibilites of separating long-lived
isotopes from these materials and the search for potential collaboration
partners/users.
Author
Dr
Dorothea Schumann
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
