From RIB production to the applications for accelerator driven hybrid systems

The revival of interest for production of neutrons by light projectiles has been recently renewed because they are the basis in the development of pow erful neutron sources for various applications like nuclear energy producti ons and incineration of nuclear waste, material structure analysis, tritium production, etc. Another interest is related to the possibility of the pro duction of radioactive ion beams (RIB) by neutron induced fission. One of t he most important tasks in this context is to determine the most efficient way to convert the primary beam energy into neutrons produced afterwards. T he problem is investigated by varying the incident energy of different proj ectiles for different target materials and assemblies. Consequently, a few direct applications of our investigations are presented and compared with e xperimental data or other theoretical estimations.