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A ~10 µm thick liquid lithium film, flowing at ~50 m s−1 bombarded by a 65 keV, 300 W proton beam was successfully tested at Argonne National Laboratory for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). An ion source, originally developed for the low energy demonstration accelerator, with a new beam transport system built at FRIB, deposited the proton beam in the lithium film at 43 % of the beam power expected at FRIB when accelerating 400 kW of uranium beam at 200 MeV per nucleon. This technology may also be applicable to other high power target areas.
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The authors would like to thank Ronald Lanham, Kevin Byrne, Ronald Clark, Richard McDaniel of ANL for their technical support. This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661. The submitted manuscript has been created by UChicago Argonne, LLC as Operator of the Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in said article to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the Government.
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Momozaki, Y., Reed, C.B., Nolen, J.A. et al. Proton beam-on-liquid lithium stripper film experiment. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 305, 843–849 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4074-9
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