Energy Deposition and Shielding Study of the Front End for the Neutrino Factory
- IIT, Chicago
- Fermilab
- Rutherford
In the Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider muons are produced by firing high energy protons onto a target to produce pions. The pions decay to muons which are then accelerated. This method of pion production results in significant background from protons and electrons, which may result in heat deposition on superconducting materials and activation of the machine preventing manual handling. In this paper we discuss the design of a secondary particle handling system. The system comprises a solenoidal chicane that filters high momentum particles, followed by a proton absorber that reduces the energy of all particles, resulting in the rejection of low energy protons that pass through the solenoid chicane. We detail the design and optimization of the system and energy deposition and shielding analysis in MARS15.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1327270
- Report Number(s):
- IPAC-2013-TUPFI067; FERMILAB-CONF-13-702-AD-APC; 1328583
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Shanghai, China, 05/12-05/17/2013
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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