A windowless and self-supporting ice target is described. An ice sheet with
a thickness of 29.7 mg/cm(2) cooled by liquid nitrogen was placed at the t
arget position of a magnetic spectrometer and worked stably in the O-16(p,p
') experiment at E-p = 392 MeV. Background-free spectra were obtained. (C)
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