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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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2025 International Conference on Accelerator Applications (AccApp'25)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|10:15AM–12:00PM EST|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Nick Evans
Alternate Chair:
Patrick Hurh
Session Organizer:
Yongqiang Wang
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Target and Moderator Design for high brightness short pulse beam for the Second Target Station
10:15–10:40AM EST
Daniel Lyngh (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Aaron Jacques (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jim Janney (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Theory of Operation of the Pulsed Ion Reflex Klystron
10:40–11:05AM EST
Gerald P. Jackson (Beam Alpha Incorporated), David Mengel (Beam Alpha Incorporated)
Residual Stress Analysis of Manufacturing Processes for Enhanced Design of a Spallation Target
11:05–11:30AM EST
Justin Mach (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Joseph B. Tipton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Aaron Jacques (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Joel Montross (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Neutronics Analysis for the ORNL's Second Target Station
11:30–11:50AM EST
Lukas Zavorka (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kristel L. Ghoos (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Igor Remec (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Improving High Power Efficiency and Lifetime of Inductive Output Tubes
11:50AM–12:10PM EST
Sergey V. Kutsaev (RadiaBeam), Vyacheslav Yakovlev (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
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