[Moller] Mo and Cu coated CfC/graphite and SiC/SiC absorbers for beam intercepting devices

[Jay Benesch]

conditions rather different than within the MOLLER spectrometer, but perhaps useful information nonetheless

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04792

High intensity proton beam impact at 440 GeV/c on Mo and Cu coated CfC/graphite and SiC/SiC absorbers for beam intercepting devices
Jorge Maestre, Cristina Bahamonde, Inigo Lamas Garcia, Keith Kershaw, Nicolo Biancacci, Josep Busom, Matthias Frankl, Anton Lechner, Adnan Kurtulus, Shunsuke Makumura, Naofumi Nakazato, Ana Teresa Perez, Antonio Perillo-Marcone, Benoit Salvant, Regis Seidenbinder, Lorenzo Teofili, Marco Calviani

    Beam Intercepting Devices (BIDs) are essential protection elements for the operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) complex. The LHC internal beam dump (LHC Target Dump Injection or LHC TDI) is the main protection BID of the LHC injection system; its main function is to protect LHC equipment in the event of a malfunction of the injection kicker magnets during beam transfer from the SPS to the LHC. Several issues with the TDI were encountered during LHC operation, most of them due to outgassing from its core components induced by electron cloud effects, which led to limitations of the injector intensity and hence had an impact on LHC availability. The absorbing cores of the TDIs, and of beam intercepting devices in general, need to deal with high thermo-mechanical loads induced by the high intensity particle beams. In addition, devices such as the TDI - where the absorbing materials are installed close to the beam, are important contributors to the accelerator impedance budget. To reduce impedance, the absorbing materials that make up the core must be typically coated with high electrical conductivity metals. Beam impact testing of the coated absorbers is a crucial element of development work to ensure their correct operation. The behaviour of several metal-coated absorber materials was investigated when exposed to high intensity and high energy proton beams in the HiRadMat facility at CERN. Different coating configurations based on copper and molybdenum, and absorbing materials such as isostatic graphite, Carbon Fibre Composite (CfC) and Silicon Carbide reinforced with Silicon Carbide fibres (SiC-SiC), were tested in the facility to assess the TDI's performance and to extract information for other BIDs using these materials. In addition to beam impact tests and an extensive Post Irradiation Examination (PIE) campaign, extensive numerical simulations were carried out. 

Comments: 	32 pages, 25 figures, submitted to Journal of Instrumentation
Subjects: 	Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

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and the Hall A beam line paper has been published in JINST.   Subscriber-only access for twelve months as JLab didn't pay the open access fee.  In the unlikely event anyone needs to cite something with open access during 2022, the arxiv posting has been updated except for formatting.  

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/16/12/T12007
 technical report
Redesigning the Jefferson Lab Hall A beam line for high precision parity experiments

J. Benesch and Y. Roblin

Published 10 December 2021 • © 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 16, December 2021 Citation J. Benesch and Y. Roblin 2021 JINST 16 T12007