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THPFI053 |
A Feasibility Experiment of a W-powder Target in the HiRadMat Facility of CERN |
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- N. Charitonidis, I. Efthymiopoulos, A. Fabich
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- O. Caretta, T.R. Davenne, C.J. Densham, M.D. Fitton, P. Loveridge
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
- L. Rivkin
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Granular solid targets made of fluidized tungsten powder or static pebble bed of tungsten spheres, have been long proposed and are being studied as an alternative configurations towards high-power (>1MW of beam power) target systems, suitable for a future Super Beam or Neutrino Factory. Serving the lack of experimental data on this field, a feasibility experiment was performed in HiRadMat facility of CERN/SPS that tried in a pulse-by-pulse basis to address the effect of the impact of the SPS beam (440GeV/c) on a static tungsten powder target. Online instrumentation such as high-speed photography and Laser - Doppler Vibrometry was employed. Preliminary results show a powder disruption speed of less than 0.5 m/s while the disruption height appears to be scaling proportionally with the beam intensity. Other analysis results will be discussed.
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THPFI055 |
First Year of Operations in the HiRadMat Irradiation Facility at CERN |
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- A. Fabich, N. Charitonidis, N. Conan, K. Cornelis, D. DePaoli, I. Efthymiopoulos, S. Evrard, H. Gaillard, J.L. Grenard, M. Lazzaroni, A. Pardons, Y.D.R. Seraphin, C. Theis, K. Weiss
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- N. Charitonidis
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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HiRadMat (High Irradiation to Materials) is a new facility at CERN constructed in 2011, designed to provide high-intensity pulsed beams to an irradiation area where material samples as well as accelerator component assemblies can be tested. The facility uses a 440 GeV proton beam extracted from the CERN SPS with a pulse length of 7.2 μs, to maximum pulse energy of 3.4MJ. For 2012, the first year of operations of the facility, nine experiments were scheduled and completed data-taking successfully. The experience gained in operating this unique facility, along with highlights of the experiments and the instrumentation developed for online measurements are reported.
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