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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Neutron moderator ： ウィキペディア英語版 Neutron moderator In nuclear engineering, a neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons, thereby turning them into thermal neutrons capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction involving uranium-235 or a similar fissile nuclide. Commonly used moderators include regular (light) water (roughly 75% of the world's reactors), solid graphite (20% of reactors) and heavy water (5% of reactors). Beryllium has also been used in some experimental types, and hydrocarbons have been suggested as another possibility. == Moderation == Neutrons are normally bound into an atomic nucleus, and do not exist free for long in nature. The unbound neutron has a half-life of just about 10 minutes. The release of neutrons from the nucleus requires exceeding the binding energy of the neutron, which is typically 7-9 MeV for most isotopes. Neutron sources generate free neutrons by a variety of nuclear reactions, including nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Whatever the source of neutrons, they are released with energies of several MeV. Since the kinetic energy, $E$, can be related to temperature via: $E=\backslash fracmv^2=\backslash frack\_B\; T$ the characteristic neutron temperature of a several-MeV neutron is several tens of millions of degrees Celsius. Moderation is the process of the reduction of the initial high kinetic energy of the free neutron. Since energy is conserved, this reduction of the neutron kinetic energy takes place by transfer of energy to a material known as a moderator. It is also known as ''neutron slowing down'', since along with the reduction of energy comes a reduction in speed. The probability of scattering of a neutron from a nucleus is given by the scattering cross section. The first couple of collisions with the moderator may be of sufficiently high energy to excite the nucleus of the moderator. Such a collision is inelastic, since some of the kinetic energy is transformed to potential energy by exciting some of the internal degrees of freedom of the nucleus to form an excited state. As the energy of the neutron is lowered, the collisions become predominantly elastic, i.e., the total kinetic energy and momentum of the system (that of the neutron and the nucleus) is conserved. Given the mathematics of elastic collisions, as neutrons are very light compared to most nuclei, the most efficient way of removing kinetic energy from the neutron is by choosing a moderating nucleus that has near identical mass. A collision of a neutron, which has mass of 1, with a 1H nucleus (a proton) could result in the neutron losing virtually all of its energy in a single head-on collision. More generally, it is necessary to take into account both glancing and head-on collisions. The ''mean logarithmic reduction of neutron energy per collision'', $\backslash xi$, depends only on the atomic mass, $A$, of the nucleus and is given by: $\backslash xi=\; \backslash ln\backslash frac=1+\backslash frac\backslash ln\backslash left(\backslash frac\backslash right)$. This can be reasonably approximated to the very simple form $\backslash xi\backslash simeq\; \backslash frac$. From this one can deduce $n$, the expected number of collisions of the neutron with nuclei of a given type that is required to reduce the kinetic energy of a neutron from $E\_0$ to $E\_1$ :$n=\backslash frac(\backslash ln\; E\_0-\backslash ln\; E\_1)$.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neutron moderator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.