Speaker
Dr
Nikolaos CHARITONIDIS
(CERN)
Description
The development of high-power targets constitutes a key R&D activity for future facilities presently under study like the Neutrino Factory, the Muon Collider or the upgraded high-power super beams for long-baseline neutrino experiments. The choice of materials to sustain the proposed beam power ranging up to (Multi-) MW levels is not trivial. Granular solid targets have been proposed and are being studied as candidates for such high-power target systems. In the recently commissioned HiRadMat facility of CERN, a feasibility experiment of a tungsten powder target was performed. The experiment was designed to explore for first time the impact of a high-power proton beam on a static powder target in a thimble configuration. The instrumentation of the experiment was based on remote high-speed photography as well as on laser - doppler vibration measurements of the target containers. Highlights of the results from the experimental findings are presented in this paper.
Primary author
Dr
Nikolaos CHARITONIDIS
(CERN)
Co-authors
Dr
Adrian Fabich
(CERN)
Dr
Chris Densham
(STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Dr
Ilias EFTHYMIOPOULOS
(CERN)
Mr
Peter Loveridge
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Dr
ottone caretta
(RAL)