Variations in ISIS target plate thermal conductivity from mining ISIS machine databases

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DOI	10.5286/stfctr.2026018
Persistent URL	http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/67607571
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Record Id	67607571
Title	Variations in ISIS target plate thermal conductivity from mining ISIS machine databases
Contributors	DJS Findlay, (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), M Romanovschi (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), GD Howells (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), D Wilcox (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), SD Gallimore (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Abstract	Decreases in thermal conductivity of tungsten in the neutron-producing target in the ISIS First Target Station due to proton-beam-induced radiation damage have been measured by analysing data in automatically recorded databases of ISIS machine parameters. The analysis is based on measurements of target plate temperature decay rates when the proton beam irradiating the target is suddenly switched off. Results presented in this report extend the range of the first measurements of tungsten thermal conductivity made on an operational spallation neutron target published previously.
Organisation	ISIS , STFC
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Licence Information:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Report	STFC Technical Reports STFC-TR-2026-018. STFC, 2026.		STFC-TR-2026-018.pdf	2026