Design Studies of an Antiproton Production Target

In this contribution we present numerical simulations of thermodynamic and hydrodynamic response of a proposed production target (see Fig. 1) for generation of antiprotons at the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR), at Darmstadt. As seen in Fig. 1, it consists of a Ni cylinder which has a radius of 0.15 cm and a length of 10 cm and is enclosed in solid graphite casing which is followed by an aluminum layer.The dimensions of the different layers are shown in the figure. One face of the cylinder is irra-