Designs Characteristics and Main Inherent Concerns of the Antiproton Decelerator Target

In the context of AD area consolidation activities a redesign of the AD-target is planned. The information presented in this report is a starting point to this purpose. The current design dates from late 80’s and it was obtained after more than 10 years of iterations and improvements of the material choices and conceptual designs due to the complexity of physical phenomena occurring inside the target material. The present report summarizes this process from the existing documents found in the literature as well as the inherent concerns which will have to be faced in the future design. Two major concerns which limit the target operation life were identified (i) shock wave effects and (ii) radiation damage. Therefore, a deep study of these phenomena and development of reliable models will be the way forward for the next steps in the re-design process.