Feasibility study of a neutron source at the daΦne beam test facility, using Monte Carlo codes

In this paper we report the feasibility study of a photo-neutron source at the DaΦne Beam Test Facility. In particular we describe the Monte Carlo simulation results and the comparison of these ones with some important semi-empirical correlations. In the preliminary phase of this project only the FLUKA code has been used, but an extensive use of GEANT4 has been also planned together with MCNPX, to investigate the effect coming from different implementation of the photo-nuclear physics. Finally, we report the expected neutron flux, when high energy electron (510 MeV) beam from the DaΦne Linac is sent onto a suitable target at the nowadays maximum admissible rate (5 · 10
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