Preparation of Nuclear Targets for Particle Accelerators

Carbon Stripper Foils.- Lifetime Measurements on Carbon Stripper Foils.- An Attempt to Improve the Lifetime of Carbon Foils.- Experience with Foil Strippers in the Chalk River MP Tandem Accelerator.- Heavy Ion Stripping by Wrinkled Carbon Foils.- A Review of Methods to Prepare Self-Supporting Carbon Targets and of their Importance in Accelerator Experiments.- Graphitization of Carbon Stripper Foils.- Transmittance vs. Wavelength for Unsupported Carbon Foils.- Lifetimes of Carbon Foils Deposited on Etched Substrates.- A Review of Development Work on Carbon Stripper Foils at Daresbury and Harwell.- Special Target Preparation Methods.- Preparation of Thick, Uniform Foils for Range and Range Straggle Measurements.- History of Target and Special Sample Preparation at the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements.- Special Nuclear Target Preparation at CBNM.- Preparation of Ce-Targets.- Preparation and Testing of Ferromagnetic Fe, Co, and Isotopic Gd Foils.- Thick Noble Gas Targets Prepared by Ion Implantation.- Improved Polyimide Foils for Nuclear Targets.- Rolling of Evaporated Magnesium Isotopes.- Ceramic and Cermet Targets.- Dry Settling and Pressing at IUCF.- Preparation of 14C-Targets by Cracking of 14CH3-J.- Preparation of Self-Supporting Holmium Targets.- General Target Preparation Methods.- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule-Switzerland.- Rolling of Sensitive Target Foils being Coated with Evaporated Metal Layers.- Past and Present Target Making Activities in Laboratories in the United Kingdom.- Preparation of Nuclear Targets at the Institute of Atomic Energy.- Université Louis Pasteur-France.- Other Topics Related to Target.- The Modular Target Transportation and Storage Facility, VAC.- The Recovery of Metallic Mercury.- New England Nuclear Corporation.- Historical Summary of Target Technology and the International Nuclear Target Development Society.- Sources of Separated Isotopes for Nuclear Targetry.- Reduction of TiO2, ZrO2, and HfO2 for Target Preparation.- Target Techniques Applied to ?-Spectroscopy with Heavy Ions.- Experience with Thin Havar Foils for Cyclotron Target Windows.- Human Factors of Safe Target Handling.- Methods to Reduce Contamination in Targets Prepared by Vacuum Deposition.