Research Article

In-Pile 4He Source for UCN Production at the ESS

Table 1

Heat-load on cryogenic 4He and integrated cold/intermediate/thermal flux for the ESS implementation of Golub’s UCN design discussed in the text and shown in Figure 4. The relative statistical uncertainties are 0.1%.

Heat-load Flux 0–5 meVFlux 5–20 meVFlux 20–100 meV
mW/cm3 /cm2/s /cm2/s /cm2/s

2.53.8 · 10129.0 · 10121.8 · 1012