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Description
The scope of the target station is to host the spallation process where protons from the accelerator are used to produce neutrons. Futhermore, these neutrons has to be moderated to useful energies, and be delivered to the neutron instruments with high efficiency. The parts of the target station directly involved in the neutron spallation are referred to as the neutron factory, thus the neutron factory can roughly be defined as the Target Station without the remote handling systems and active cells facility.
The target division has gone through an extensive period of testing and commissioning of the subsystems within the neutron factory, including single object testing and system testing. These test and commissioning activities culminated in an integrated test with the purpose of operating all systems together for a long period of time in order to verify the performance of the complete neutron factory. Moreover, the intention was not only technical but the test also served the purpose of testing the organizational readiness as well as providing an opportunity to close out some of the remaining issues from previous tests.
This presentation will outline the scope and planning of the integrated test, as well as findings and lessons learned from the test campaign. Covered is also a forward looking discussion on the upcoming integrated testing phase 2, which is based on the lessons learned from the previous phase.