Liquid-lithium cooling for 100-kW ISOL and fragmentation targets Original Research Article

Advanced exotic beam facilities that are currently being developed will use powerful driver accelerators for the production of short-lived rare isotopes. Multi-beam drivers capable of producing high power beams from very light to very heavy ions are now technically feasible. A challenge for such facilities is the development of production targets to be used for a variety of reaction mechanisms with beam powers of about 100 kW. This paper presents engineering concepts that have been developed recently for using liquid lithium coolant for two types of targets, one for use with light-ion beams on high atomic number (Z) targets and the other for heavy-ion beams on low-Z targets.