Overview of Solid Target Studies for a Neutrino Factory

Edgecock, R., Back, J. J., Bennett, J.R.J., Booth, C.N., Brooks, S.J. and Škoro, G.P. (2010) Overview of Solid Target Studies for a Neutrino Factory. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference. IPAC 2010 . JACoW, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 4263-4265. ISBN 978-92-9083-352-9

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Abstract

The UK pro­gramme of high power tar­get de­vel­op­ments for a Neu­tri­no Fac­to­ry is cen­tred on the study of high-Z ma­te­ri­als (tung­sten, tan­ta­lum). A de­scrip­tion of life­time shock tests on can­di­date ma­te­ri­als is given as part of the re­search into a solid tar­get so­lu­tion. A fast high cur­rent pulse is ap­plied to a thin wire of the sam­ple ma­te­ri­al and the life­time mea­sured from the num­ber of puls­es be­fore fail­ure. These mea­sure­ments are made at tem­per­a­tures up to ~2000 K. The stress on the wire is cal­cu­lat­ed using the LS-DY­NA code and com­pared to the stress ex­pect­ed in the real Neu­tri­no Fac­to­ry tar­get. It has been found that tan­ta­lum is too weak to sus­tain pro­longed stress at these tem­per­a­tures but a tung­sten wire has reached over 26 mil­lion puls­es (equiv­a­lent to more than ten years of op­er­a­tion at the Neu­tri­no Fac­to­ry). An ac­count is given of the op­ti­mi­sa­tion of sec­ondary pion pro­duc­tion from the tar­get and the is­sues re­lat­ed to mount­ing the tar­get in the muon cap­ture solenoid and tar­get sta­tion are dis­cussed.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Schools:	School of Applied Sciences
Related URLs:	Author Conference Publisher
Depositing User:	Thomas Edgecock
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2014 14:38
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2021 19:03
URI:	https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/21168

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