… In-beam experiments investigating cavitation damage in short pulse mercury spallation
targets … Research (LANSCE – WNR) facility in 2005. Two main areas were investigated. First, …

… The target used for damage dependence on beam intensity is the same design as used in
2002 and 2005 WNR experiments. The rectangular chambers contain stagnant mercury 225 …

… More disturbing with the 2005 result was that: (1) damage did not … and 2005 produced much
less damage in 2005. A credible explanation has not been achieved. The 2005 experiment …

… More precisely, cavitation damage of the target vessel … performed at LANSCE-WNR in 2008
where a test target with … the 2005 experiment was subsequently taken to the LANSCE proton …

… The BSD in the 2005 apparatus was later obtained by means of proton radiography [9], [10] …
exhausted into the test room and ultimately out the LANSCE-WNR facility hot off-gas stack. …

… more complex conditions introduced by a flowing mercury target system. A water-loop has
… the Spallation Neutron Source target system will be used to extend these studies to mercury…

… the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) mercury target module vessel is now providing insight
into cavitation… PIE studies of Targets 1 and 2 material [14], [15]. The fracture of inner windows …

… Cavitation damage on a mercury target vessel for a pulsed … As for the mercury targets,
cavitation damage tests were conducted using mercury to investigate the cavitation damage …

… high-power mercury targets, cavitation erosion damage, the … observed from the WNR mercury
target experiments using a … -beam tests were carried out at the WNR facility in LANSCE. …

… experiments for measuring strains in various mercury-filled … mercury at a specified level
of tensile pressure, or cavitation … for the LE targets tested at the LANSCE-WNR it was found …