• Beam Test of the PIN-diode Readout Units with Electron Energies from 5 to 40 GeV at CERN SPS

    分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2023-10-31

    摘要: The Chinese large-area violet-light-sensitive silicon photodiode PIN is one of the candidates of the lead tungstate crystal detector readout component of the photon spectrometer in the large heavy ion collision experiment. The PIN diode was assembled with the lead tungstate crystal and the low-noise preamplifier into a complete detector unit. The beam test was carried out on the SPS accelerator at CERN. The energy resolution was measured with the electron beam energy ranging from 5 to 40 GeV. The summation correction method was discussed, and an excellent linearity of the nominal beam energy versus the peak position of the detector was obtained, which showed the punch-through effect can be ignored.

  • Static and dynamic evolution of CO adsorption on γ-U (1 0 0) surface with different levels of Mo doping using DFT and AIMD calculations

    分类: 核科学技术 >> 核材料与工艺技术 提交时间: 2023-08-14

    摘要: Alloys of uranium and molybdenum are considered as the future of nuclear fuel and defense materials. However, surface corrosion is a fundamental problem in practical applications and storage. In this study, the static and dynamic evolution of carbon monoxide (CO) adsorption and dissociation on -U (1 0 0) surface with different Mo doping levels was investigated based on density functional theory and ab initio molecular dynamics. During the static calculation phase, parameters, such as adsorption energy, configuration, and Bader charge, were evaluated at all adsorption sites. Furthermore, the time-dependent behavior of CO molecule adsorption were investigated at the most favorable sites. The minimum energy paths for CO molecular dissociation and atom migration were investigated using the transition state search method. The results demonstrated that the CO on the uranium surface mainly manifests as chemical adsorption before dissociation of the CO molecule. The CO molecule exhibited a tendency to rotate and tilt upright adsorption. However, it is difficult for CO adsorption on the surface in one of the configurations with CO molecule in vertical direction but oxygen (O) is closer to the surface. Bader charge illustrates that the charge transfers from slab atoms to the 2* antibonding orbital of CO molecule and particularly occurs in carbon (C) atoms. The time is less than 100 fs for the adsorptions that forms embryos with tilt upright in dynamics evolution. The density of states elucidates that the overlapping hybridization of C and O 2p orbitals is mainly formed via the d orbitals of uranium and molybdenum (Mo) atoms in the dissociation and re-adsorption of CO molecule. In conclusion, Mo-doping of the surface can decelerate the adsorption and dissociation of CO molecules. A Mo-doped surface, created through ion injection, enhanced the resistance to uranium-induced surface corrosion.