Preparation of Nuclear Targets for Particle Accelerators

This book contains th~ Proceedings of the World Conference of the International Nuclear Target Development Society held in Boston, October 1-3, 1979. Approximately seventy participants and registrants from the following countries attended this Conference: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, United Kingdom, German Federal Republic, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the United States. The Conference was sponsored by the New England Nuclear Corporation. Conference Chairman in residence was Jozef Jaklovsky who was assisted by the invited Co-Chairman D. Riel of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. This publication incorporates the proceedings of an inter national conference concentrating on the general field of target preparation for use with particle accelerators. The publication includes additional contributions on target preparations by honorary members of this Society. For the first time in this field, an extensive bibliography collection (1936-June 1980) is included. Bibliography, subject index, author index, country index, and patent index have been organized by the editor. The biblioqraphy includes thin and thick particle accelerator targets and also preparation and use of targets in particle accelerators.

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Carbon Stripper Foils.- Lifetime Measurements on Carbon Stripper Foils.- An Attempt to Improve the Lifetime of Carbon Foils.- Experience with Foil Strippers in the Chalk River MP Tandem Accelerator.- Heavy Ion Stripping by Wrinkled Carbon Foils.- A Review of Methods to Prepare Self-Supporting Carbon Targets and of their Importance in Accelerator Experiments.- Graphitization of Carbon Stripper Foils.- Transmittance vs. Wavelength for Unsupported Carbon Foils.- Lifetimes of Carbon Foils Deposited on Etched Substrates.- A Review of Development Work on Carbon Stripper Foils at Daresbury and Harwell.- Special Target Preparation Methods.- Preparation of Thick, Uniform Foils for Range and Range Straggle Measurements.- History of Target and Special Sample Preparation at the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements.- Special Nuclear Target Preparation at CBNM.- Preparation of Ce-Targets.- Preparation and Testing of Ferromagnetic Fe, Co, and Isotopic Gd Foils.- Thick Noble Gas Targets Prepared by Ion Implantation.- Improved Polyimide Foils for Nuclear Targets.- Rolling of Evaporated Magnesium Isotopes.- Ceramic and Cermet Targets.- Dry Settling and Pressing at IUCF.- Preparation of 14C-Targets by Cracking of 14CH3-J.- Preparation of Self-Supporting Holmium Targets.- General Target Preparation Methods.- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule-Switzerland.- Rolling of Sensitive Target Foils being Coated with Evaporated Metal Layers.- Past and Present Target Making Activities in Laboratories in the United Kingdom.- Preparation of Nuclear Targets at the Institute of Atomic Energy.- Université Louis Pasteur-France.- Other Topics Related to Target.- The Modular Target Transportation and Storage Facility, VAC.- The Recovery of Metallic Mercury.- New England Nuclear Corporation.-Historical Summary of Target Technology and the International Nuclear Target Development Society.- Sources of Separated Isotopes for Nuclear Targetry.- Reduction of TiO2, ZrO2, and HfO2 for Target Preparation.- Target Techniques Applied to ?-Spectroscopy with Heavy Ions.- Experience with Thin Havar Foils for Cyclotron Target Windows.- Human Factors of Safe Target Handling.- Methods to Reduce Contamination in Targets Prepared by Vacuum Deposition.