1. Harold G. Kirk Brookhaven National Laboratory MERIT Installation Issues CERN Meeting June 20, 2006

2. Harold G. Kirk The MERIT Experiment (3/3) To be installed in the TT2A tunnel upstream of the nTOF target Data taking: “two-weeks” at the PS startup in 2007 Beam dump (new) Experiment Collimator & beam instrumentation Quads for focusing (new) Electronics + cryogenics Access concrete blocks Cryogenics exhaust line to TT10

3. Harold G. Kirk Experiment at CERN TT10 TT2 TT2A ISR Tunnel MERIT Hyd Pump & Controls in TT2 Access Shaft

4. Harold G. Kirk The Cold Valve Box

5. Harold G. Kirk The Cryo Heater

6. Harold G. Kirk Experiment Layout Hg target is a self-contained module inserted into the magnet bore Two containment barriers between the Hg and the TT2A tunnel environment Hydraulic pump will be in TT2, personnel in Bldg 272 remote control room

7. Harold G. Kirk The Hg Jet Control Rack

8. Harold G. Kirk The Hg Jet Control Rack (cont)

9. Harold G. Kirk The MERIT Experiment (2/3) Target chamberSolenoid Hg container Hg-jet hydraulic system Proton Beam

10. Harold G. Kirk Hg Jet Secondary Containment

11. Harold G. Kirk The Hg Jet System Hydraulics Instrumentation Optical diagnostics Hg drain & fill (without opening secondary) Hg extraction (in event of major leak in primary containment) Passive filtration

12. Harold G. Kirk The Pulsed Solenoid

13. Harold G. Kirk Rigging the Solenoid at MIT Movie of moving the solenoid at MIT is found at: http://198.125.178.188/bnlpulsed/MERITMagRig.mpg