Current status of the design of a tritium target for the Saclay 700 MeV LINAC

The author reports briefly on a liquid tritium target that is being designed at Saclay. The primary aim is to determine the magnetic form factor of 3H up to q2 = 30 fm-2. For the target, the amount of tritium in the system is limited to one gram, i.e. an activity of 10 kCi. The target is being designed exclusively for single-arm electron scattering experiments, with reasonable beam intensities (10 to 30 μA) and scattering angles between 25 and 155 degrees. This should allow to measure the elastic, inelastic and deep inelastic scattering of electrons, including the 2 and 3-body break-up if a sufficient energy resolution can be achieved. The limited amount of tritium available forces one to work with a well collimated beam: the target cylinder has a diameter of 10 mm. (Auth.)