This book contains th Proceedings of the World Conference of the
International Nuclear Target Development Society held in Boston, October
1-3, 1979. Approximately seventy participants and registrants from the
following countries attended this Conference: Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
United Kingdom, German Federal Republic, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands,
Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the United States. The Conference was
sponsored by the New England Nuclear Corporation. Conference Chairman in
residence was Jozef Jaklovsky who was assisted by the invited
Co-Chairman D. Riel of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
This publication incorporates the proceedings of an inter- national
conference concentrating on the general field of target preparation for
use with particle accelerators. The publication includes additional
contributions on target preparations by honorary members of this
Society. For the first time in this field, an extensive bibliography
collection (1936-June 1980) is included. Bibliography, subject index,
author index, country index, and patent index have been organized by the
editor. The biblioqraphy includes thin and thick particle accelerator
targets and also preparation and use of targets in particle
accelerators.