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Title: Status report on an engineering design study of hermetic liquid argon calorimetry for the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider)

Abstract

There is general recognition that engineering issues are critical to the viability of liquid argon calorimetry (LAC) at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). We have undertaken to quantitatively address these issues and, if possible, perform a preliminary design of a proof of principle'' LAC for SSC. To establish LAC as viable at SSC, we must demonstrate that the physics performance of the device is acceptable, despite the presence of dead material due to vessels and support structure. Our approach involves the construction, by a team of physicists and engineers, of one three dimensional model of the LAC system, built as a hierarchy of components and structures, from which we directly perform interferences checks, mechanical, thermal and magnetic analyses, particle tracking, hermeticity evaluation, physics simulation and assembly. This study, begun in February 1989 as part of the SSC generic detector R and D program, was immediately preceded by a workshop at which engineering details of existing and planned LAC systems were thoroughly examined. We describe below the status of our work, beginning with short descriptions of the tools used, the study requirements and LAC configuration baseline. We then detail the LAC design as it presently stands, including assembly considerations, and concludemore » with a quantitative assessment of the LAC hermeticity. 19 refs., 12 figs.« less

Authors:
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  1. Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO (USA). Astronautics Group
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/ER
OSTI Identifier:
5793357
Report Number(s):
BNL-43131; CONF-890379-11
ON: DE89015716; TRN: 89-020340
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-80ER10699; AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Workshop on calorimetry for the SSC, Tuscaloosa, AL (USA), 13-17 Mar 1989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SHOWER COUNTERS; DESIGN; CRYOGENICS; ENERGY RESOLUTION; MATERIALS; PARTICLE RAPIDITY; SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; RADIATION DETECTORS; RESOLUTION; STORAGE RINGS; 440104* - Radiation Instrumentation- High Energy Physics Instrumentation

Citation Formats

Adams, T, Davis, M, DiGiacomo, N J, Easom, B, Gordon, H, Hupp, J, Killian, K, Kroon, P, Lajczok, M, Marx, M, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO, and Un, State. Status report on an engineering design study of hermetic liquid argon calorimetry for the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider). United States: N. p., 1989. Web.
Adams, T, Davis, M, DiGiacomo, N J, Easom, B, Gordon, H, Hupp, J, Killian, K, Kroon, P, Lajczok, M, Marx, M, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO, & Un, State. Status report on an engineering design study of hermetic liquid argon calorimetry for the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider). United States.
Adams, T, Davis, M, DiGiacomo, N J, Easom, B, Gordon, H, Hupp, J, Killian, K, Kroon, P, Lajczok, M, Marx, M, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO, and Un, State. 1989. "Status report on an engineering design study of hermetic liquid argon calorimetry for the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider)". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5793357.
@article{osti_5793357,
title = {Status report on an engineering design study of hermetic liquid argon calorimetry for the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider)},
author = {Adams, T and Davis, M and DiGiacomo, N J and Easom, B and Gordon, H and Hupp, J and Killian, K and Kroon, P and Lajczok, M and Marx, M and Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY and Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO and Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY and Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, CO and Un, State},
abstractNote = {There is general recognition that engineering issues are critical to the viability of liquid argon calorimetry (LAC) at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). We have undertaken to quantitatively address these issues and, if possible, perform a preliminary design of a proof of principle'' LAC for SSC. To establish LAC as viable at SSC, we must demonstrate that the physics performance of the device is acceptable, despite the presence of dead material due to vessels and support structure. Our approach involves the construction, by a team of physicists and engineers, of one three dimensional model of the LAC system, built as a hierarchy of components and structures, from which we directly perform interferences checks, mechanical, thermal and magnetic analyses, particle tracking, hermeticity evaluation, physics simulation and assembly. This study, begun in February 1989 as part of the SSC generic detector R and D program, was immediately preceded by a workshop at which engineering details of existing and planned LAC systems were thoroughly examined. We describe below the status of our work, beginning with short descriptions of the tools used, the study requirements and LAC configuration baseline. We then detail the LAC design as it presently stands, including assembly considerations, and conclude with a quantitative assessment of the LAC hermeticity. 19 refs., 12 figs.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989},
month = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989}
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