Operating Experience with Meson Production Targets at TRIUMF

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<a href="https://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Stenning%2C%20Mark%20C&ln=en">Stenning, Mark C</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Affiliation </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">(TRIUMF, Vancouver)</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Publication </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">2005</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> In: </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="https://cds.cern.ch/record/719664">21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference</a>, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.1919</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Subject category </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">Accelerators and Storage Rings</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Abstract </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">High power targets are now required for operation at beam powers in excess of 1 MW for spallation neutron sources and neutrino factories. TRIUMF has been operating beryllium and graphite meson production targets for many years. Although the proton beam power of 100 kW at 500 MeV is lower, the beam densities and fluences are higher than most operating solid targets as other accelerators use rotating targets or larger beam spots. 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