IPAC'26 - the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Machine protection considerations for beam transfer of the high-intensity proton beam to the BDF at CERN

WEP5049

20 May 2026, 16:00

2h

C.I.D

Poster Presentation MC5.D01: Beam Optics Lattices, Correction Schemes, Transport Poster session

Speaker

Aleksandr Gorn (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Description

The new beam-dump production target serving for Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment will be built just upstream of the ECN3 experimental cavern in CERN’s North Area. The future experiment requires an increase in the number of protons delivered to this location to over 4e19 per year. This necessitates upgrades of the primary beam transfer lines and their optics coming from SPS directly to the new Beam Dump Facility (BDF). The modifications aim to minimise beam loss and to avoid significant radioactivation of the equipment. In this work we describe the mitigation of possible failure scenarios related to the design of the beam delivery systems across the North Area, in order to protect the accelerator, its infrastructure, and most notably the BDF target.