Experimental studies of neutron emission spectra in Li(d,xn) reactions for IFMIF

Abstract To improve the accuracy of the neutron emission data in the nat Li(d,xn) reaction, which will be used as the neutron source in the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF), we measured the double-differential neutron emission cross-sections (DDXs) of the d-Li reaction at 25 MeV at the cyclotron facility of Tohoku University. The DDXs were measured at ten laboratory angles between 0° and 110° by the time-of-flight method, using a beam-swinger system and a well-collimated neutron flight channel. We used a two-gain method to obtain over most of the energy range of secondary neutrons and reveal the shape of the overall emission spectra including the breakup peak of incident deuterons near half the incidence energy, and several peaks in the high-energy tail due to stripping reactions. The experimental results compared favorably with those obtained using the extended Serber model.