1–6 Jun 2025
Taipei International Convention Center (TICC)
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Towards tailored beam distributions for fixed target experiments at CERN

TUPB018
3 Jun 2025, 16:00
2h
Exhibiton Hall A _Bear (TWTC)

Exhibiton Hall A _Bear

TWTC

Poster Presentation MC4.T12 Beam Injection/Extraction and Transport Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Francisco Huhn (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

The time-of-flight (nTOF) facility at CERN uses neutrons produced by a proton beam interacting with a fixed target. To prevent target damage, an upper bound on the peak energy density has been imposed. Adhering to this constraint requires a large beam size. Similarly, at CERN’s North Area, a large beam size is required at the septa splitting the beam towards different experiments. However, both cases suffer from limitations associated to losses of the primary beam, leading to poor transmission efficiency and high radioactive activation. This paper proposes an alternative approach by manipulating the beam distribution. Given the absence of strong nonlinear elements in both transfer lines, the focus shifts to tailoring the distribution before extraction. The core concept revolves around exploiting nonlinearities near betatron resonances.
Particle tracking simulations are presented alongside experimental results, characterizing the phase space distribution as a function of machine parameters. Advanced deep learning methods that enable efficient exploration of the parameter space are also discussed.

Region represented Europe
Paper preparation format LaTeX

Author

Matthias Remta (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Co-authors

Francesco Velotti (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Francisco Huhn (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Pablo Andreas Arrutia Sota (University of Oxford) Yann Dutheil (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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