Author: Velev, G.
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MOPEA073 Current Status of the LBNE Neutrino Beam 255
 
  • C.D. Moore, K.R. Bourkland, C.F. Crowley, P. Hurh, J. Hylen, B.G. Lundberg, A. Marchionni, M.W. McGee, N.V. Mokhov, V. Papadimitriou, R.K. Plunkett, S.D. Reitzner, A.M. Stefanik, G. Velev, K.E. Williams, R.M. Zwaska
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the Fermilab Research Alliance, under contract DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Dept of Energy.
The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a neutrino beamline facility located at Fermilab. The facility is designed to aim a beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed in South Dakota. The neutrinos are produced in a three-step process. First, protons from the Main Injector hit a solid target and produce mesons. Then, the charged mesons are focused by a set of focusing horns into the decay pipe, towards the far detector. Finally, the mesons that enter the decay pipe decay into neutrinos. The parameters of the facility were determined by an amalgam of the physics goals, the Monte Carlo modeling of the facility, and the experience gained by operating the NuMI facility at Fermilab. The initial beam power is expected to be ~700 kW, however some of the parameters were chosen to be able to deal with a beam power of 2.3 MW. The LBNE Neutrino Beam has made significant changes to the initial design through consideration of numerous Value Engineering proposals and the current design is described.
 
 
THPME044 Fabrication and Test of a 1 M Long Single-aperture 11 T Nb3Sn Dipole for LHC Upgrades 3609
 
  • A.V. Zlobin, N. Andreev, G. Apollinari, E.Z. Barzi, R. Bossert, G. Chlachidze, J. DiMarco, A. Nobrega, I. Novitski, D. Turrioni, G. Velev
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • B. Auchmann, M. Karppinen, L. Rossi, D. Smekens
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work is supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy and European Commission under FP7 project HiLumi LHC, GA no.284404
The planned upgrade of the LHC collimation system includes two additional collimators to be installed in the dispersion suppressor areas around points 2, 3 and 7, and high luminosity interaction regions in points 1 and 5. The necessary longitudinal space for the collimators could be provided by replacing some 8.33 T NbTi LHC main dipoles with 11 T dipoles based on Nb3Sn superconductor and compatible with the LHC lattice and main systems. To demonstrate this possibility Fermilab and CERN have started in 2011 a joint R&D program with the goal of building by 2015 a 5.5-m long twin-aperture dipole prototype suitable for installation in the LHC. An important part of the program is the development and test a series of short single-aperture demonstration dipoles with the nominal field of 11 T at the LHC nominal current of ~11.85 kA and ~20% margin. This paper describes the design features and test results of a 1-m long single-aperture Nb3Sn demonstrator dipole for the LHC collimation system upgrade.