| Article | |
| Title | A Feasibility Experiment of a W-powder Target in the HiRadMat Facility of CERN |
| Author(s) | Charitonidis, Nikolaos (CERN) ; Efthymiopoulos, Ilias (CERN) ; Fabich, Adrian (CERN) ; Caretta, Ottone (Rutherford) ; Davenne, Tristan (Rutherford) ; Densham, Chris (Rutherford) ; Fitton, Michael (Rutherford) ; Loveridge, Peter (Rutherford) ; Rivkin, Leonid (Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne) |
| Publication | 2013 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| In: | 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Shanghai, China, 12 - 17 May 2013, pp.3409 |
| Subject category | Astrophysics and Astronomy |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Copyright/License | publication: (License: CC-BY) |
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