Published June 1, 2008 | Version v1
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The MERIT(nTOF-11) High Intensity Liquid Mercury Target Experiment at the CERN PS

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Description

The MERIT(nTOF-11) experiment is a proof-of-principle test of a target system for a high power proton beam to be used as front-end for a neutrino factory or a muon collider. The experiment took data in autumn 2007 with the fast-extracted beam from the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS) to a maximum intensity of 30 x 1012 per pulse. The target system, based on a free mercury jet, is capable of intercepting a 4-MW proton beam inside a 15-T magnetic field required to capture the low energy secondary pions as the source for intense muon beams. Particle detectors installed around the target setup measure the secondary particle flux out of the target and can probe cavitation effects in the mercury jet when excited by an intense proton beam. Preliminary results of the data analysis will be presented here

Availability note (English)

Available from http://lss.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/find_paper.pl?conf-08-225.pdf; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/936269-p4wpia/

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URL
http://lss.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/find_paper.pl?conf-08-225.pdf; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/936269-p4wpia/;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
3 p.
Report number
FERMILAB-CONF--08-225-APC

Conference

Title
11. European Particle Accelerator Conference
Acronym
EPAC 08
Dates
23-27 Jun 2008
Place
Genoa (Italy)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
39104345
Subject category
S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATORS; CAVITATION; CERN; DATA ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MERCURY; MUON BEAMS; MUONS; NEUTRINOS; PIONS; PROBES; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; SYNCHROTRONS; TARGETS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; BARYONS; BEAMS; BOSONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; HADRONS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; LEPTON BEAMS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MESONS; METALS; NUCLEON BEAMS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-76CH03000
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)