Targets Project Coordination
Lead Research Organisation:
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Thomas Robert Edgecock (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Bungau Cristian
(2015)
5MW Power Upgrade Studies of the ISIS TS1 Target
Edgecock R
(2014)
Accelerator-driven boron neutron capture therapy
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Satyamurthy P
(2012)
Design of an 18MW vortex flow water beam dump for 500GeV electrons/positrons of an international linear collider
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Papadimitriou V
(2016)
DESIGN OF THE LBNF BEAMLINE
Tariq S.
(2016)
Design of the LBNF Beamline Target Station
Phoenix B
(2015)
Development of a higher power cooling system for lithium targets.
in Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine
Caretta O
(2013)
Engineering considerations on targets for a Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider
in Journal of Nuclear Materials
Diwan M
(2013)
Future Long-Baseline Neutrino Facilities and Detectors
in Advances in High Energy Physics
| Description | The research has identified a number of possible new technologies, materials and operational techniques for targets that will allow them to be used with more powerful accelerator beams. It is also identified that for spallation neutron sources, such as ISIS, much more attention needs to be paid to the neutron capture system. It has supported the upgrades to be made to the ISIS target. |
| Exploitation Route | The work is relevant for future neutrino sources, such as LBNF and T2HK. The former is already investigating the use of a packed bed target developed by this project. It has also contributed to studies of the Mu2e target and has demonstrated a possible way of building high power neutrino and neutron targets, including for radiation damage studies for fission and fusion reactors. Further, the work is also of relevance for neutron production for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. |
| Sectors | Energy,Healthcare,Other |
| Description | RADiATE collaboration |
| Organisation | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project has directly resulted in the creation of a collaboration to study the effects of radiation damage on materials for accelerators and for nuclear reactors. This has already made detailed studies of radiation damage to graphite and beryllium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above. |
| Impact | The collaboration is still active. It is multi-disciplinary, involving physicists, engineers and material scientists. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | RADiATE collaboration |
| Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project has directly resulted in the creation of a collaboration to study the effects of radiation damage on materials for accelerators and for nuclear reactors. This has already made detailed studies of radiation damage to graphite and beryllium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above. |
| Impact | The collaboration is still active. It is multi-disciplinary, involving physicists, engineers and material scientists. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | RADiATE collaboration |
| Organisation | U.S. Department of Energy |
| Department | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project has directly resulted in the creation of a collaboration to study the effects of radiation damage on materials for accelerators and for nuclear reactors. This has already made detailed studies of radiation damage to graphite and beryllium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above. |
| Impact | The collaboration is still active. It is multi-disciplinary, involving physicists, engineers and material scientists. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | RADiATE collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Materials |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project has directly resulted in the creation of a collaboration to study the effects of radiation damage on materials for accelerators and for nuclear reactors. This has already made detailed studies of radiation damage to graphite and beryllium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above. |
| Impact | The collaboration is still active. It is multi-disciplinary, involving physicists, engineers and material scientists. |
| Start Year | 2012 |