A Target-Temperature Monitoring System for Cyclotron Targets: Safety Device and Tool to Experimentally Validate Targetry Studies

The present work describes an experimental system enabling temperature measurement in cyclotron targets’ cooling water during bombardment. The developed system provides sensible and immediate response to variations of irradiation conditions during bombardment and enables quantification of the temper...

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Published in:Instruments (Basel) 2018-09, Vol.2 (3), p.9
Main Authors: do Carmo, Sergio, de Oliveira, Pedro, Alves, Francisco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beam interactions
Collimation
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Cooling
cyclotron
Cyclotrons
Irradiation
Monitoring
Safety devices
Software
targetry
Temperature measurement
thermal study
Water temperature
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Summary:The present work describes an experimental system enabling temperature measurement in cyclotron targets’ cooling water during bombardment. The developed system provides sensible and immediate response to variations of irradiation conditions during bombardment and enables quantification of the temperature rise in the cooling water due to beam interaction with the irradiated target and with its collimator. Such a system finds application either as a monitoring safety device to instantaneously detect and register abnormal alterations in target conditions to anticipate thermal-related incidents and as a tool to experimentally validate cyclotron targetry optimization studies and thermal simulations.
ISSN:2410-390X
2410-390X
DOI:10.3390/instruments2030009