High intensity proton beam impact at 440 GeV/c on Mo and Cu coated CfC/graphite and SiC/SiC absorbers for beam intercepting devices
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Maestre, J.Editorial
Institute of Physics
Materia
Accelerator Subsystems and Technologies Models and simulations Overall mechanics design (support structures and materials, vibration analysis etc) Targets (spallation source targets, radioisotope production, neutrino and muon sources)
Date
2022-01-14Referencia bibliográfica
J. Maestre... [et al.], 2022 JINST 17 P01019. [https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/01/P01019]
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CERN's Sources, Targets and Interactions (STI) Group; Accelerator Consolidation Project at CERN; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) JP16H03994; transnational access activity ARIES - European Union 730871Abstract
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 onLHCavailability.
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.
In the work covered by this paper, 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 to assess the performance of the coatings
and the structural integrity of the substrates, extensive numerical simulations were carried out.