General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-24-0843
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
Environmental applications of the metrological study of photonuclear reactions on light elements.
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Through a thesis and a project funded by the LNE, the LNHB is developing a prototype for the detection of illicit materials using the active photon interrogation method, based on the spectrometry of photoneutrons emitted by targets irradiated by a linear electron accelerator. This new thesis topic involves studying photonuclear reactions on light elements for environmental applications, primarily through a better understanding of photoneutrons, secondary neutrons and cosmogenic radionuclide production rates in the atmosphere during terrestrial gamma ray flashes associated with thunderstorms or gamma-ray bursts of cosmic origin. The LNHB-MD's unique experimental facility will be use to obtain basic nuclear data, such as the angular and energy distributions of photoneutrons emitted by light elements, and to characterize activation products. The data collected will be use to improve the description of photonuclear processes for light elements in Monte-Carlo codes, and to estimate their influence on measurable quantities through simulation codes for environmental phenomena. The same methodology can be apply to the study of photonuclear reactions in rocks - composed mainly of light elements - following irradiation by high-energy photons of natural or artificial origin.
University / doctoral school
PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
RAPP Benjamin benjamin.rapp@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DIN//LNHB-MD
DRT / LIST / DIN / SIMRI / LNHB-MD
CEA Saclay LNHB-MD DOSEO Bât. 135
F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
01 69 08 82 59
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
BLIDEANU Valentin valentin.blideanu@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DIN//LNHB-MD
DOSEO - Bât. 135
CEA Saclay
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
0169088263
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