Weapons Neutron Research Facility at LANSCE
The Weapons Neutron Research Facility (WNR) provides neutron and proton beams, and detector arrays for basic, applied, industrial, and defense-related research.
Weapons Neutron Research
The Neutron and Nuclear Science Research Facility (WNR) provides neutron and proton beams, and detector arrays for basic, applied, industrial, and defense-related research. Neutron beams with energies ranging from about 0.1 MeV to more than 600 MeV are produced in Target 4 (an unmoderated tungsten spallation source) using the 800 MeV proton beam from the LANSCE linac. In the Target-2 area (Blue Room) samples can be exposed to the direct 800 MeV proton beam. Three low-energy nuclear science flight paths at the Lujan Center (Target 1) view a moderated target and have neutron energies that range from sub-thermal to approximately 500 keV.
Science Thrust Areas
- Radiation Effects - FP-30L ICE House; FP-30R ICE II
- Detector development
- Neutron radiography - FP05
- Fission and neutron capture cross sections - FP-90L TPC; FP-14 DANCE; FP-13 DICER
- Fission fragment measurements - FP-12 SPIDER
- Fission neutron output spectrum measurements - FP-15L Chi-nu
- Neutron-induced Charged Particle Detection - FP-15R n,z
Instrument Suite
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DANCE - Flight Path 14 Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Experiments
Nuclear science and technology -
Flight Path 12
Nuclear physics -
DICER - Flight Path 13 Device for Indirect Neutron Capture Experiments on Radionuclides
Neutron total cross sections on radioactive samples
