Experimental facilities for KAON

The report outlines major experimental facilities at the KAON Factory. For the purposes of the Project Definition Study (PDS), the facilities must be specified to sufficient accuracy so that a reasonable estimate of costs can be established. In addition, the impact of the production of these facilities on the Canadian industrial community needs to be evaluated. In order to achieve these goals a number of assumptions must be made regarding the types of facilities that will be required. The considerations to date of what the experimental facilities at KAON will look like have primarily concentrated on the secondary beams that will be produced using the full intensity (100 μ-amps) 30 GeV/c unpolarized proton beam. Several schemes for extracting low energy beams from a production target that will allow for the extraction of several other beams form the same target. Any experimental layout that places several production targets in the same proton beam must attempt to optimize particle production versus the transmission of the primary beam through the upstream targets. It has been decided that a layout with the largest number of ideal channels and the greatest flexibility be adopted. (N.K.)