Shielding synchrotron light sources: Advantages of circular shield walls tunnels

Kramer, S. L.; Ghosh, V. J.; Breitfeller, M.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.094

Title: Shielding synchrotron light sources: Advantages of circular shield walls tunnels

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Third generation high brightness light sources are designed to have low emittance and high current beams, which contribute to higher beam loss rates that will be compensated by Top-Off injection. Shielding for these higher loss rates will be critical to protect the projected higher occupancy factors for the users. Top-Off injection requires a full energy injector, which will demand greater consideration of the potential abnormal beam miss-steering and localized losses that could occur. The high energy electron injection beam produce significantly higher neutron component dose to the experimental floor than lower energy injection and ramped operations. High energy neutrons produced in the forward direction from thin target beam losses are a major component of the dose rate outside the shield walls of the tunnel. The convention has been to provide thicker 90° ratchet walls to reduce this dose to the beam line users. We present an alternate circular shield wall design, which naturally and cost effectively increases the path length for this forward radiation in the shield wall and thereby substantially decreasing the dose rate for these beam losses. Here, this shield wall design will greatly reduce the dose rate to the users working near the front end optical componentsmore »« less

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Kramer, S. L. ^[1]; Ghosh, V. J. ^[2]; Breitfeller, M. ^[2]

Design and Accelerator Operations Consulting, Ridge, NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1340339

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1359663

Report Number(s):: BNL-111853-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704; AC02-98CH1-886

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 827; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; top-off injection; NSLS-II; ratchet wall; National Synchrotron Light Source II; Synchrotron light source shielding radiation protection

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                    Kramer, S. L., Ghosh, V. J., and Breitfeller, M. Shielding synchrotron light sources: Advantages of circular shield walls tunnels.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Kramer, S. L., Ghosh, V. J., & Breitfeller, M. Shielding synchrotron light sources: Advantages of circular shield walls tunnels.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.094

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                    Kramer, S. L., Ghosh, V. J., and Breitfeller, M. Tue .  
"Shielding synchrotron light sources: Advantages of circular shield walls tunnels".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.094.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1340339.

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  title        = {Shielding synchrotron light sources: Advantages of circular shield walls tunnels},

  author       = {Kramer, S. L. and Ghosh, V. J. and Breitfeller, M.},

  abstractNote = {Third generation high brightness light sources are designed to have low emittance and high current beams, which contribute to higher beam loss rates that will be compensated by Top-Off injection. Shielding for these higher loss rates will be critical to protect the projected higher occupancy factors for the users. Top-Off injection requires a full energy injector, which will demand greater consideration of the potential abnormal beam miss-steering and localized losses that could occur. The high energy electron injection beam produce significantly higher neutron component dose to the experimental floor than lower energy injection and ramped operations. High energy neutrons produced in the forward direction from thin target beam losses are a major component of the dose rate outside the shield walls of the tunnel. The convention has been to provide thicker 90° ratchet walls to reduce this dose to the beam line users. We present an alternate circular shield wall design, which naturally and cost effectively increases the path length for this forward radiation in the shield wall and thereby substantially decreasing the dose rate for these beam losses. Here, this shield wall design will greatly reduce the dose rate to the users working near the front end optical components but will challenge the beam line designers to effectively utilize the longer length of beam line penetration in the shield wall. Additional advantages of the circular shield wall tunnel are that it's simpler to construct, allows greater access to the insertion devices and the upstream in tunnel beam line components, as well as reducing the volume of concrete and therefore the cost of the shield wall.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.094},

  journal      = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 827,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

}

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