Neutron dose per fluence and weighting factors for use at high energy accelerators.

In June 2007, the United States Department of Energy incorporated revised values of neutron weighting factors into its occupational radiation protection regulation Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations Part 835, as part of updating its radiation dosimetry system. This has led to a reassessment of neutron radiation fields at high energy accelerators such as those at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the context of the amended regulation and contemporary guidance of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). Values of dose per fluence factors appropriate for accelerator radiation fields calculated elsewhere are collated and radiation weighting factors compared.

Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam.

This Letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rates and energy spectra of charged current nu(mu) interactions are compared in two detectors located along the beam axis at distances of 1 and 735 km. With 1.

Assessment of the prompt radiation hazards of trapped antiprotons.

Investigators at several laboratories are seriously considering the storage and transport, perhaps over long distances, of very low energy antiprotons as a part of basic physics research programs and perhaps even for practical applications. To do this will require proper attention to the prompt radiation hazards due to the release of energy in the annihilations of antiprotons with nuclei, under either planned or accidental circumstances. In this paper, the potential storage of very low energy antiprotons is discussed, and the major features of the radiation fields produced by their annihilations are reviewed both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Assessment of dose equivalent due to neutrinos.

Neutrinos are present in the natural environment and are also produced by particle accelerators. A recent hypothesis has also been proposed that asserts that ionizing radiation due to neutrinos from certain astronomical events may have led to the extinction of some biological species. Thus, it is of interest to be able to estimate the dose equivalent due to these weakly interacting particles.