Design, Operations, and Safety Report for the MERIT Target System

Technical Report · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/985266· OSTI ID:985266

Graves, Van B ^[1]; Spampinato, Philip Thomas ^[1]

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1. ORNL

The Mercury Intense Target Project (MERIT) is a proof-of-principal experiment to determine the feasibility of using a free-jet of Hg as a spallation target in a Neutrino Factory or a Muon Collider facility. The 1-cm-diameter, 20-m/sec jet will be generated inside a 15-Tesla magnetic field, and high-speed optical diagnostics will be used to photograph the interaction between the Hg jet and a 24-GeV proton beam.The experiment is scheduled to be conducted at CERN in 2007. ORNL is responsible for the design, fabrication, and testing of a system to deliver the Hg jet within the confines of the 15-cm magnet bore. This report documents the functional and safety requirements of the Hg system along with descriptions of its interfaces to the other experimental equipment.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 985266
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2007/162; KA1501020; ERKAP52; TRN: US1006197
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CERN
DESIGN
FABRICATION
FUNCTIONALS
IMAGES
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNETS
MERCURY
MUONS
NEUTRINOS
ORNL
PROTONS
SAFETY
SAFETY REPORTS
SPALLATION
TARGETS
TESTING