Lithium 8 is a short lived beta emitter producing a high energy anti-neutrino, which is very suitable for making several measurements of fundamental quantities. It is proposed to produce Lithium 8 with a commercially available 60 MeV cyclotron using protons or alpha particles on a Beryllium 9 target. We have used the GEANT4 program to model these processes, and calculate the anti-neutrino fluxes that could be obtained in a practical system. We also calculate the production of undesirable contaminants such as Boron 8, and show that these can be reduced to a very low level.
@article{arxiv.1205.5790,
title = {Target Studies for the Production of Lithium8 for Neutrino Physics Using a Low Energy Cyclotron},
author = {Adriana Bungau and Roger Barlow and Michael Shaevitz and Janet Conrad and Joshua Spitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5790},
year = {2015}
}