COOLING SYSTEM FOR THE MERIT HIGH-POWER TARGET EXPERIMENT

Journal Article · Fri Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3422261· OSTI ID:21371778

Haug, F; Pereira, H; Silva, P; Pezzetti, M; Pavlov, O; Pirotte, O; Metselaar, J; Efthymiopoulos, I; Fabich, A; Lettry, J ^[1]; Kirk, H G ^[2]; McDonald, K T ^[3]; Titus, P ^[4]; Bennett, J R. J. ^[5]

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1. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva, 23 (Switzerland)
2. BNL, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)
3. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
4. NW22-225 MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 185 Albany Street, Cambridge MA 02139 (United States)
5. CCLRC, RAL, Chilton, OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)

MERIT is a proof-of-principle experiment of a target station suitable as source for future muon colliders or neutrino factories. When installed at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) PS (Proton Synchrotron) complex fast-extracted high-intensity proton beams intercepted a free mercury jet inside a normal-conducting, pulsed 15-T capture solenoid magnet cooled with liquid nitrogen. Up to 25 MJ of Joule heat was dissipated in the magnet during a pulse. The fully automated, remotely controlled cryogenic system of novel design permitted the transfer of nitrogen by the sole means of differential pressures inside the vessels. This fast cycling system permitted several hundred tests in less than three weeks during the 2007 data taking campaign.

• OSTI ID: 21371778
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1218, Issue 1; Conference: International cryogenic materials conference (ICMC) on advances in cryogenic engineering materials, Tucson, AZ (United States), 28 Jun - 2 Jul 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3422261; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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NITROGEN
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
PROTON BEAMS
PULSES
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HEAT TRANSFER
LOSSES
METALS
NONMETALS
NUCLEON BEAMS
PARTICLE BEAMS
SYNCHROTRONS
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