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We describe a neutralized-beam intense neutron source (NBINS) as a relevant application of fusion technology for the type of high-current ion sources and neutral beamlines now being developed for heating and fueling of magnetic-fusion-energy confinement systems. This near-term application would support parallel development of highly reliable steady-state higher-voltage neutral D/sup 0/ and T/sup 0/ beams and provide a relatively inexpensive source of fusion neutrons for materials testing at up to reactor-like wall conditions. Beam-target examples described incude a 50-A mixed D-T total (ions plus neutrals) space-charge-neutralized beam at 120 keV incident on a liquid Li drive-in target, or a 50-A T/sup 0/ + T/sup +/ space-charge-neutralized beam incident on either a LiD or gas D/sub 2/ target with calculated 14-MeV neutron yields of 2 x 10/sup 15//s, 7 x 10/sup 15//s, or 1.6 x 10/sup 16//s, respectively. The severe local heat loading on the target surface is expected to limit the allowed beam focus and minimum target size to greater than or equal to 25 cm/sup 2/.

The UA1 and UA2 experiments at the CERN SPS anti pp collider observed several events which they have interpreted to be the leptonic decay of the charged intermediate vector boson, W/sup +-/ + e/sup +-/nu. All of these events have an electron with large transverse momentum and large mission transverse energy. The experiments had remarkably little background in the region of large transverse momentum of the electron (P/sub Te/). In this report we examine the possibility of doing a high statistics experiment producing several million W's per year. Large statistics are necessary to obtain a precise measurement of the W/sup +/ mass and of the Z/sup 0/-W mass difference. We use the Jacobian peak in the electron P/sub T/ distribution to obtain the W/sup +/mass. We examine in detail the P/sub T/ distribution of the electron produced by the leptonic decay of the W/sup +/ ..-->.. e/sup +/nu. We investigate backgrounds to this reaction from the pileup of minimum bias events, from leading ..pi../sup 0/s in light quark jets simulating electrons and from the decay of heavy quark jets producing electrons.