Research Article

Subcritical Multiplication Parameters of the Accelerator-Driven System with 100 MeV Protons at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly

Table 4

Comparison between the measured and calculated neutron multiplication and subcritical multiplication factor obtained from the experiments (Figure 5) and calculations (MCNPX with JENDL/HE-2007).

Neutron multiplication M
CaseCalculationExperimentC/E

(A, 15)(1.15 ± 0.04) × 103(1.83 ± 0.05) × 1030.63
(G, 15)(6.25 ± 0.21) × 103(2.88 ± 0.09) × 1032.17
(K, 15)(2.04 ± 0.09) × 103(1.88 ± 0.05) × 1031.08

Subcritical multiplication factor ks
CaseCalculationExperimentC/E

(A, 15)0.99913 ± 0.000030.99945 ± 0.000011.00
(G, 15)0.99984 ± 0.000030.99965 ± 0.000011.00
(K, 15)0.99951 ± 0.000030.99947 ± 0.000011.00