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The Meson Production Targets in the high energy beamline of HIPA at PSI
by D. Kiselev, P. A. Duperrex, S. Jollet, S. Joray, D. Laube, D. Reggiani, R. Sobbia, V. Talanov
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Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Daniela Kiselev |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202105_00043v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2021-07-15 |
| Date submitted: | 2021-07-06 09:40 |
| Submitted by: | Kiselev, Daniela |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | Review of Particle Physics at PSI (PSI2020) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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Abstract
Two target stations in the 590 MeV proton beamline of the High Intensity Proton Accelerator (HIPA) at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) produce pions and muons for seven secondary beamlines, leading to several experimental stations. The two target stations are 18m apart. Target M is a graphite target with an effective thickness of 5mm, Target E is a graphite wheel with a thickness of 40 mm or 60 mm. Due to the spreading of the beam in the thick target, a high power collimator system is needed to shape the beam for further transport. The beam is then transported to either the SINQ target, a neutron spallation source, or stopped in the beam dump, where about 450 kW beam power is dissipated. In the following, the targets, collimators and beam dumps are further described.
Author comments upon resubmission
Dear reviewer, thank you for the review and the kind words about our manuscript. 1) The 450 kW dissipated energy for the beam dump looks indeed surprising and you are not the first one wondering about. First, using a 40 mm target, the beam dump stands only 1.6 mA as maximum current on Target E. In Target E and collimator system about 30 % is lost. Therefore, we end up with 1.15 mA or 644 kW (using 575 MeV as some energy is lost in the Target E). The value of 450 kW is calculated from the water flux and the temperature difference of out-going to in-coming water. This value fits very well to an old calculation of Gerd Heidenreich. Another 50 kW is expected for the local shielding left and right of the collimator and 40 kW distributes in the shielding above the collimator according to simulations. The remaining energy is dissipated in the surrounded shielding. 2) Yes, indeed this is a typo. Thank you. It is corrected in the new version. 3) Gerd Heidenreich is indeed the developer of both target stations, the collimator system and the beam dump. I am already in contact with him and he agreed to review our design for the HIMB station. It is a pleasure for me to acknowledge him for the design, which lead to a long lasting and high performing target station. Urs Rohrer was not involved in the target station development but into the beam line design. However, a large part of the success of the target stations as well as the exchange flasks can be devoted to Ake Strinning, the engineer bringing the design ideas of Gerd to life. Michael Wohlmuther was mainly involved in the simulations for the SINQ and UCN target stations, not in the technical design or operation of the meson target facilities. However, as a group leader he was supporting the ANSYS simulations and I will acknowledge him for this.
With kind regards,
Daniela Kiselev
Dear Claude, thank you for the positive rating of our paper and the in-depth review. All corrections were made as you suggested. Below you find a few comments to the most interesting ones: 4) Be contamination: Although I was expecting this problem, I never explicitly heard about. Probably the so called “Be flushing”, which sucks the air into the vacuum pipe to avoid spreading of the contamination, solved the issue. It is still used during the target exchange. 8) Ratio of positive to negative cloud muons: Indeed, it is more a factor 3-4 than an order of magnitude. I probably mixed it with surface muons. 10) Years of references added. 11) Good idea to mention the reason for the naming. Now I know even who it invented!
Best regards, Daniela
List of changes
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Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 5, 003 (2021)
Reports on this Submission
Report #1 by Claude Petitjean (Referee 3) on 2021-7-6 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Claude Petitjean, Report on arXiv:scipost_202105_00043v2, delivered 2021-07-06, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.3205
Strengths
1) this paper gives an excellent account of PSI's high energy target stations, collimators and beam dump, its functioning, especially concerning the heat dissipation generated by the MW primary proton beam.
2) the many figures are very informative and make the paper easy to read and understand.
Report
In the second version of this paper all minor critics have been corrected and suggestions included. Thus, it is ready for publication in the SciPost journal.
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Anonymous on 2021-07-07 [id 1549]
Everything is fine now. Good for publication!