THE NORTH TARGET


A new North TAarget unit has been installed during LS1.
It provides 5 target heads, which are arranged according to the following sketch:

The heads have the following characteristics:

Head nr

Material and length

Diameter

Comments

1

200 mm BE + 3 mm W

10 mm

Electron target

2

100 mm AL + 3 mm W

10 mm

Electron target

3

200 mm AL

10 mm

Hadron target

4

0 mm

-

Empty target

5

20 mm AL

10 mm

Thin target

The target is preceded by a screen. Each target head has its corresponding impact point on the screen, as indicated by the five crosses on the screen. A picture of the screen is shown below:

The target is controlled by the CCC operator on request by the SBA beam line physicist.


Lau Gatignon