10–12 Apr 2017
Europe/London timezone

TRAD’s GEANT4 Activity: Cryostat Study

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Mr Pierre Pourrouquet (TRAD)

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Proton beam irradiation on a cryostat can induce device activation that causes radio protection issues and cryostat transportation delay. The aim of this study, funded by CNES, was to predict the behaviour of a cryostat during and after irradiation using a chain of software tools: - FASTRAD for cryostat modelling and import to GEANT4, - GEANT4 for dose and transmitted spectra calculation in different cryostat volumes including DUT, Devices Under Test, located inside the cryostat, - FISPACT for activation calculation in these volumes based on particle spectra, - RAYXPERT for radio protection calculation based on these activation data. Another important point was to assess the TID, Total Ionizing Dose, and TNID, Total Non-Ionizing Dose, deposited on DUT inside the cryostat. The dose results obtained with GEANT4 calculations were compared to real cryostat irradiation measurements performed with an equivalent beam configuration.

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