  CERN has launched a study phase to evaluate the feasibility of a new
high-intensity beam dump facility at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
accelerator with the primary goal of exploring Hidden Sector models and
searching for Light Dark Matter, but which also offers opportunities for other
fixed target flavour physics programs such as rare tau lepton decays and tau
neutrino studies. The new facility will require - among other infrastructure -
a target complex in which a dense target/dump will be installed, capable of
absorbing the entire energy of the beam extracted from the SPS accelerator. In
theory, the target/dump could produce very weakly interacting particles, to be
investigated by a suite of particle detectors to be located downstream of the
target complex. As part of the study, a development design of the target
complex has been produced, taking into account the handling and remote handling
operations needed through the lifetime of the facility. Two different handling
concepts have been studied and both resulting designs are presented.
