Stephen Brooks 🦆When I visited the European Spallation Source last week I was lucky enough to see some of the workings of the rotating segmented tungsten target, which will be hit by initially 3MW and eventually 5MW of proton beam. The target 'wheel' hangs from the shaft in the video, which you can see rotating to align a different one of 32 sectors with each 14Hz proton pulse, taking just over two seconds per rotation. #physics #accelerators
On the GANIL facility tour last Friday I saw a separated sector #cyclotron (too big for the frame but you can see one sector's magnet in green) and a beamline where they were trying to make super-heavy elements by colliding a mid-mass ion beam with heavy element target.
#accelerators #physics
