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Simulation of the secondary beams in the CERN north and east areas using FLUKA

TUPC46
21 May 2024, 16:00
2h
Country (MCC Exhibit Hall A)

Country

MCC Exhibit Hall A

Poster Presentation MC1.A21 Secondary Beams Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Laurence Nevay (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

The CERN North and East Experimental Areas provide a wide variety of secondary beams for fixed-target experiments and test beam set-ups. These secondary beams are exploited by the many users of these facilities, requiring a large diversity of different particle species at different momenta. Magnetic selection as well as optional converters and absorbers are used to create the beams according to user and experiment requirements. Presented here are start-to-end Monte Carlo simulations of complete secondary beam lines using FLUKA, which demonstrate beam composition, spectra and beam size. Custom geometry and accurate magnetic field maps are composed automatically into detailed models. A comparison with measured beam composition in select cases is presented along with a description of the automated beam line modelling.

Region represented Europe
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Primary author

Laurence Nevay (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Co-authors

Alice Goillot (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Anna Baratto Roldan (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Bastien Rae (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Dipanwita Banerjee (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Elisabetta Parozzi (Universita Milano Bicocca) Emily Andersen (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Fabian Metzger (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Florian Stummer (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Johannes Bernhard (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Laurent Gatignon (Lancaster University) Luke Dyks (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Maarten Van Dijk (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Marc Jebramcik (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Markus Brugger (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Nikolaos Charitonidis (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Robert Murphy (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Silvia Schuh-Erhard (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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