The Medley facilities past and future: Fast neutron nuclear data for science and industry

Abstract

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:="" mangal;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" hi"="" lang="EN-US">The Medley facility has been installed at The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL) for more than 10 years. During that time double-differential cross-sections for neutron-induced light-ion production have been measured for a range of target nuclei at incoming neutron energies of up to 175 MeV. Now, Medley will move to a new home at the Neutrons For Science (NFS) facility at GANIL in France. This facility is currently under construction and should start operating 2014. The pulsed beam combined with time-of-flight measurements will allow for good neutron energy resolution. The paper briefly summarizes the motivation for the experiment, design concepts, results achieved at TSL, and the future plans at NFS.</span>