Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams (May 2015)

Energy deposition studies for the high-luminosity Large Hadron Collider inner triplet magnets

  • N. V. Mokhov,
  • I. L. Rakhno,
  • I. S. Tropin,
  • F. Cerutti,
  • L. S. Esposito,
  • A. Lechner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.051001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 5
p. 051001

Abstract

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A detailed model of the high-luminosity LHC inner triplet region with new large-aperture Nb_{3}Sn magnets, field maps, corrector packages, and segmented tungsten inner absorbers was built and implemented into the fluka and mars15 codes. Detailed simulations have been performed coherently with the codes on the impact of particle debris from the 14-TeV center-of-mass pp-collisions on the short- and long-term stability of the inner triplet magnets. After optimizing the absorber configuration, the peak power density averaged over the magnet inner cable width is found to be safely below the quench limit at the luminosity of 5×10^{34} cm^{−2} s^{−1}. For the anticipated lifetime integrated luminosity of 3000 fb^{−1}, the peak dose calculated for the innermost magnet insulator ranges from 20 to 35 MGy, a figure close to the commonly accepted limit. Dynamic heat loads to the triplet magnet cold mass are calculated to evaluate the cryogenic capability. fluka and mars results on energy deposition are in very good agreement.