Thin Target simulation - heat capacity

The heat capacity of the target is one of the most important parameters defining the temperature reached by the target due to interaction with the beam. It is beacuse typically the interaction with the beam pulse is very short and the cooling processes have no time tostart acting.

Typical specific heat behaviour is such, that the value is very smallin cryogenic temperature and rises - weaker than linearly - with temperature, so it is more difficult to heat up material which is already hot. On the plot below a specific heat dependence on the temperature is shown for graphite.