Volume 3, Issue 2

Original research papers

Radiation Effects

PERFORMING THE FIRST SINGLE EVENT EFFECT TESTS USING THE METU DEFOCUSING BEAM LINE IN TURKEY

Ç. Yazgan, M. B. Demirköz, M. Yiğitoğlu, S. Niğdelioglu, P. Uslu, I. Efthymiopoulos

Pages: 128-132

DOI: 10.21175/RadJ.2018.02.021

Received: 15 JUN 2018, Received revised: 10 OCT 2018, Accepted: 26 OCT 2018, Published online: 27 DEC 2018

METU-Defocusing Beam Line (METU-DBL) project aims to perform Single Event Effect (SEE) tests for space, nuclear and other applications. Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEA) has a cyclotron which can accelerate protons up to 30 MeV kinetic energy at the Proton Accelerator Facility (PAF) mainly for radioisotope production and for research and development (R&D) purposes. In the facility, the stable proton beam current is variable between 0.1 µA to 1.2 mA and the beam size is nearly 1 cm x 1 cm. METU-DBL pre-test setup, which has been installed in the R&D room, enlarges the beam size with two quadrupole magnets and it reduces the proton flux with a collimator. The pretest setup beam size is about 10 cm x 10 cm and the beam flux is 108 p/cm2/s. The first tests of electronic cards, detectors and also commercial and experimental solar cells have been performed using this setup. Also, the final configuration of METU-DBL is now under construction to provide a beam according to ESA ESCC No. 25100 standard. MCNP Monte Carlo codes were used for the calculations of secondary particles (neutrons, gammas) and residuals.
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