30th Conference of the International Nuclear Target Development Society INTDS 2022

25 Sept 2022, 16:00 → 30 Sept 2022, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland)

Dr. Maria Dorothea Schumann (Paul Scherrer Institut)

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Sunday, 25 September

17:30 → 18:00 Registration (OASE/PSI)

18:00 → 21:00 Welcome reception (OASE/PSI)

Monday, 26 September

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome

Conveners: Andreas Pautz, Christelle Stodel (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourd (GANIL)), Maria Dorothea Schumann (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:30 → 10:30 Target characterisation

Convener: Klaus Eberhardt (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

09:30 Targetry of rare isotopes at PSI

Speaker: Emilio Andrea Maugeri (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

Maugeri_web.pdf

09:50 Thickness and uniformity analysis of thin and heat resistant targets

Speaker: Maria Fisichella

Fisichella_web.pdf

10:10 Analysis of thin Tb/Pd intermetallic targets prepared by the coupled reduction reaction

Speaker: Noemi Cerboni (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Cerboni_web.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:40 Target characterisation

Convener: Klaus Eberhardt (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

11:00 Preparation and characterization of Pu-239 and Pu-240 recoil ion sources providing U-235m and U-236 for laser-spectroscopic study

Speaker: Lauren Reed (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Reed_web.pdf

11:20 Estimation of the thickness distribution of the evaporated material based on Lambert's Law

Speaker: Anna Stolarz (Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw)

Stolarz_web.pdf

11:40 → 12:20 Gas targets

Convener: Ntombizonke Kheswa (iThemba LABS/NRF)

11:40 Cluster size determination of a cluster-jet target using shadowgraphy measurements

Speaker: Hanna Eick (WWU Münster)

Eick_web.pdf

12:00 The MAGIX jet target – A windowless target for high precision experiments at an energy-recovery linac

Speaker: Philipp Brand (WWU Münster)

Brand_web.pdf

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:20 Gas targets

Convener: Ntombizonke Kheswa (iThemba LABS/NRF)

14:00 The Münster Cluster-Jet-Target for the future PANDA Experiment

Speaker: Sophia Vestrick (WWU Münster)

Vestrick_web.pdf

14:20 → 15:20 Method development

Convener: Rugard Dressler (Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:20 A novel technique for the production of robust actinide targets using solution combustion Synthesis (SCS) and electrospraying techniques

Speaker: Stefania Dede (Texas A&M University, University of Notre Dame)

Dede_web.pdf

14:40 Development of a modular Hivipp system

Speaker: Connor Mohs (Argonne National Laboratory)

Mohs_web.pdf

15:00 The influence of water and carbon dioxide content in solvents on lanthanide thin films produced by molecular plating

Speaker: Ernst Artes (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

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15:20 → 15:40 Exhibition introduction and visit

Speaker: Maria Dorothea Schumann (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 → 17:10 Method development

Convener: Rugard Dressler (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:10 Spherical powders: Control over the size and morphology of powders for additive manufacturing and enriched stable isotope nuclear targets

Speaker: Mike Zach (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Zach_web.pdf

16:30 Development of a low-loss, minimal exposure technique for thallium foil fabrication

Speaker: Jennifer Conner (Oak Ridge National Lab)

Connor_web.pdf

16:50 Novel actinide target making method: Spin-coating assisted combustion synthesis

Speaker: Ashabari Majumdar (University of Notre Dame)

Majumdar_web.pdf

Tuesday, 27 September

09:00 → 10:30 Actinide targets

Convener: Christelle Stodel (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourd (GANIL))

09:00 Invited: Targets for radioisotope production, neutron scattering, nuclear data measurements, and exploring the limits of the periodic table

Speaker: Kristian Myhre (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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09:30 Actinide and lanthanide target developments using a drop-on-demand printing system

Speaker: Dennis Renisch (Institut für Kernchemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)

Renisch_web.pdf

09:50 Production of powder targets for neutron induced cros section measurements

Speaker: Goedele Sibbens (JRC-IRMM)

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10:10 Application of multiple source preparation procedures on environmental samples in alpha spectrometry

Speaker: Maruf Abubakar (Ghana Atomic Energy Commission)

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:20 Stripper foils

Convener: Daniela Kiselev (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:00 Method for releasing the carbon foil from the substrate

Speaker: Hiroo Hasebe (Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Japan)

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11:20 Preparation of different carbon stripper foils and application in beam diagnostics

Speaker: Bettina Lommel (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

11:40 Installation and commissioning of the stripping foil system in the new CERN PS booster 160 MeV h−injection region

Speaker: Wim Weterings (CERN)

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12:00 Overview and status of FRIB charge stripper and charge selector

Speaker: Takuji Kanemura (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)

Kanemura_web.pdf

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 Stable targets

Convener: Anna Stolarz (Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw)

14:00 Improvements in iridium target chemistry

Speaker: Athena Marenco (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Marenco_web.pdf

14:20 Electrodeposition of iridium for target manufacturing

Speaker: Ntombizonke Kheswa (iThemba LABS/NRF)

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14:40 Design of thin targets for the numen experiment

Speaker: Federico Pinna (Politecnico di Torino)

Pinna_web.pdf

15:00 Fabrication and characterization of high purity 93Nb target on lead backing

Speaker: Anand Pandey (Department of Physics and Astrophysics)

Pandey_web.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 Conference picture

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 → 16:50 Stable targets

Convener: Anna Stolarz (Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw)

16:10 Spanning the periodic table: An overview of stable isotope target fabrication at ORNL

Speaker: Cherlyn Foster (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Foster_web.pdf

16:30 Preparation and characterization of HOPG-backed targets for the numen project

Speaker: Antonio Massara (INFN)

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Wednesday, 28 September

09:00 → 10:30 High power targets

Convener: Maria Dorothea Schumann (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:00 Invited: High-power targets for the production of radioisotope beams

Speaker: Alexander Gottberg (TRIUMF)

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09:30 REPARE: Design of a high-power solid target

Speaker: M. Michel (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds, GANIL)

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09:50 The PSI Meson Target facility and its upgrade IMPACT-HIMB

Speaker: Daniela Kiselev (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

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10:10 IMPACT-TATTOOS as part of the infrastructure roadmap Switzerland initiative: Challenges of the design concepts

Speaker: Robert Eichler (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:40 High power targets

Convener: Maria Dorothea Schumann (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:00 Design, construction, commissioning, and early operation of the third-generation n_TOF neutron spallation target at CERN

Speaker: Raffaele Esposito (CERN)

Esposito_web.pdf

11:20 A Spallation target at TRIUMF for fundamental neutron physics

Speaker: Sean Vanbergen (TRIUMF)

Vanbergen_web.pdf

11:40 → 12:20 Target for beam development

Convener: Daniela Kiselev (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:40 A new cryogenic target at LNL (CTADIR)

Speaker: Matus Sedlák (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

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12:00 Ni target development for TULIP project

Speaker: Pascal Jardin (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds, GANIL)

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12:20 → 13:00 Lunchbox

13:00 → 19:00 Social Program: Excursion to Lucerne, City tour

19:00 → 23:00 Conference Dinner: Boat tour on lake “Vierwaldstättersee”

Thursday, 29 September

09:00 → 10:30 Isotope production

Convener: Goedele Sibbens (JRC-IRMM)

09:00 Invited: Water as a target for heavy ion irradiations

Speaker: Greg Severin (he Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB))

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09:30 Isotope production at PSI

Speaker: Rugard Dressler (Paul Scherrer Institut)

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09:50 A Missing link: towards the preparation of a 32Si target for nuclear astrophysics experiments

Speaker: Mario Veicht (Paul Scherrer Institut)

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10:10 Radiolysis in a flowing-water target during isotope harvesting

Speaker: ‪Katharina Domnanich (The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:20 Medical application

Convener: Emilio Andrea Maugeri (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:00 Production of Pb-203 from target manufacturing to chemical separation Tl/Pb

Speaker: Thomas Sounalet (Le laboratoire de Physique SUBAtomique et TECHnologies associées (Subatech))

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11:20 Target preparation for radionuclide development towards medical application at Paul Scherrer Institut

Speaker: Zeynep Talip (Paul Scherrer Institute)

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11:40 Study of Liquid bismuth as an alternative target for At-211 production

Speaker: Theo Bigourdan (Groupement d'Intérêt Public, Accelerator for Research in Radiochemistry and Oncology (ARRONAX))

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12:00 Novel solid target and irradiation methods for theragnostic radioisotope production at the Bern medical cyclotron

Speaker: Gaia Dellepiane (Uni Berne, Switzerland)

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12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Medical application

Convener: Emilio Andrea Maugeri (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:00 On-line temperature measurement in a water cooled solid-target at the bc1710 cyclotron

Speaker: Ingo Spahn (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

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14:20 Towards Radium-226 target development for photonuclear cross section measurements

Speaker: Hanna Skliarova (SCK CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Centre)

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14:40 Targetry for the in-beam activation of tracer particles for positron emission particle tracking

Speaker: Thomas Leadbeater (University of Cape Town)

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15:00 → 15:40 Education

15:00 1st student target workshop at Argonne National Laboratory

Speaker: Matt Gott (Argonne National Laboratory)

Gott_1_web.pdf

15:20 Cold-rolling a 54Fe target for nuclear structure studies and student training

Speaker: Matt Gott (Argonne National Laboratory)

Gott_2_web.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 → 17:30 INTDS Board Member Election

Speaker: Goedele Sibbens (JRC-IRMM)

Friday, 30 September

09:00 → 10:30 Stable targets

Convener: Bettina Lommel (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

09:00 Invited: Preparation and characterization of 82Se targets with trigonal hexagonal crystal structure for ion-beam nuclear structure experiments

Speaker: Nicoleta-Mihaela Florea (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH))

09:30 Production of PbSe targets for neutron capture cross section studies

Speaker: Nadine Mariel Chiera (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

Chiera_web.pdf

09:50 Comparison of Bi2O3-targets produced by thermal evaporation and DC magnetron sputtering

Speaker: Birgit Kindler (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

10:10 The preparation of isotopic boron targets – Searching for a more consistent approach

Speaker: Matt Gott (Argonne National Laboratory)

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10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:20 Visit PSI of accelerator facilities

12:20 → 14:00 End of conference

14:00 → 15:40 INTDS board meeting