About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Ceramics and Ceramic-Based Composites for Nuclear Applications III
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| Presentation Title |
Graphite for Accelerator Beam Intercepting Devices |
| Author(s) |
Abraham C. Burleigh, Patrick Hurh |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Abraham C. Burleigh |
| Abstract Scope |
Nuclear grade fine-grain graphite has played a central role in particle accelerator Beam Intercepting Devices, BID (e.g. targets or beam dumps) for decades, especially for high beam power facilities, such as at Fermilab, CERN, PSI and JPARC. Operations of these facilities have demonstrated graphite’s reliable performance at beam powers up to about 1 MW and enduring over 10 million thermal shock cycles of over 3x107 K/s. Planned future accelerator facilities will push BID beam power capability into the multi-MW regime. The material challenges of such MW-class accelerator facilities, how graphite may meet those challenges, as well as an overview of recent and current research on graphite for high power accelerator BID will be presented. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Other, Other, |