Project of the borehole neutron generator for the direct determination of oxygen and carbon by activation method

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 747; no. 1; pp. 12007 - 12010
• Main Authors: Bogdanovich, B Yu, Vovchenko, E D, Iliinskiy, A V, Isaev, A A, Kozlovskiy, I, Nesterovich, A V, Senyukov, V A, Shikanov, A E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Boreholes; Carbon isotopes; Deuterons; Insulation; Ion sources; Marx generators; Neutrons; Oxygen isotopes; Permanent magnets; Physics
• ISSN: 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/747/1/012007

The paper deals with application features of borehole neutron generator (BNG) based on the vacuum accelerating tube (AT) with laser-plasma ion source for determination of oxygen isotope 16O and carbon isotope 12C by direct activation. The project of pulsed BNG for realization of an activation method in the conditions of natural presence of productive hydrocarbons is offered. The diode system with radial acceleration, magnetic electron insulation and laser-plasma source of deuterons at the anode in a sealed-off vacuum accelerating tube is applied. The permanent NdFeB magnet with induction about 0.5 T for produce the insulating magnetic field in the diode gap is proposed. In the experiments on the model of BNG with the accelerating voltage source (≈350 kV), performed by the scheme of Arkadiev-Marx generator, the output of (d, d) neutrons was ∼107 pulse-1.