Potential for Zinc Activation
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 11:11 am
Greetings,
I am currently in the process of building a fusor and am curious if it has the capability of activating Zinc-66.
As a bit of background on the fusor, it has a -40 kV DC, 400 W power supply, a 10^-2 mTorr hard vacuum, a deuterium pressure of 5-15 mTorr, a stainless steel chamber diameter of 6 inches, and an inner grid diameter of 1.5 inches. This device has yet to be run, thus, the neutron flux and isotropic neutron population are currently unknown. However, I hope that these details will give the reader a frame of reference for what the flux and population may look like.
The goal of this experiment would be to be able to activate Zinc-66 using the fusor's neutrons. This would optimally occur in a way that would produce a (n,2n) reaction that I may be able to observe with a Ludlum model 12-4 Neutron Counter (He-3 Neutron Counter).
Sincerely, Joshua Guertler
I am currently in the process of building a fusor and am curious if it has the capability of activating Zinc-66.
As a bit of background on the fusor, it has a -40 kV DC, 400 W power supply, a 10^-2 mTorr hard vacuum, a deuterium pressure of 5-15 mTorr, a stainless steel chamber diameter of 6 inches, and an inner grid diameter of 1.5 inches. This device has yet to be run, thus, the neutron flux and isotropic neutron population are currently unknown. However, I hope that these details will give the reader a frame of reference for what the flux and population may look like.
The goal of this experiment would be to be able to activate Zinc-66 using the fusor's neutrons. This would optimally occur in a way that would produce a (n,2n) reaction that I may be able to observe with a Ludlum model 12-4 Neutron Counter (He-3 Neutron Counter).
Sincerely, Joshua Guertler