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High power targets are at the very heart of most applications of accelerators to science and technology. With many projects aiming to utilize beams in the multi-megawatt power range, solid targets, in particular stationary ones, become increasingly difficult. Liquid metal targets have become the concept of choice. Designs cover a variety of concepts ranging from free jets to allow extraction of low energy ? highly ionizing radiation (pions and muons) to fully enclosed systems if neutron generation is the main goal. Mercury is often the preferred target material due to its liquid state at room temperature and other favourable properties. Designs aiming at high temperature operation depending on small neutron absorption rely on PbBi as target material. Liquid lithium is proposed for a deuteron stripping target for the IFMIF project. Questions that need to be solved include solid-liquid metal reactions, radiation effects, general liquid metal technology, handling of spallation products as well as design of components and subsystems. In addition, short pulse operation leads to the generation of pressure waves inside the targets and the need to control their consequences.
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