Monday, March 5, 2012

1203.0070 (Jeff Gronberg et al.)

Prototyping of the ILC Baseline Positron Target    [PDF]

Jeff Gronberg, Craig Brooksby, Tom Piggott, Ryan Abbott, Jay Javedani, Ed Cook
The ILC positron system uses novel helical undulators to create a powerful photon beam from the main electron beam. This beam is passed through a titanium target to convert it into electron-positron pairs. The target is constructed as a 1 m diameter wheel spinning at 2000 RPM to smear the 1 ms ILC pulse train over 10 cm. A pulsed flux concentrating magnet is used to increase the positron capture efficiency. It is cooled to liquid nitrogen temperatures to maximize the flatness of the magnetic field over the 1 ms ILC pulse train. We report on prototyping effort on this system.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0070

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