IPAC2019 - List of Authors (D’Alessandro, G.)

Paper	Title	Page
WEPTS054	Pyg4ometry : A Tool to Create Geometries for Geant4, BDSIM, G4Beamline and FLUKA for Particle Loss and Energy Deposit Studies	3244
	S.T. Boogert, A. Abramov, J. Albrecht, G. D’Alessandro, L.J. Nevay, W. Shields, S.D. Walker JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
	Studying the energy deposits in accelerator components, mechanical supports, services, ancillary equipment and shielding requires a detailed computer readable description of the component geometry. The creation of geometries is a significant bottleneck in producing complete simulation models and reducing the effort required will provide the ability of non-experts to simulate the effects of beam losses on realistic accelerators. The paper describes a flexible and easy to use Python package to create geometries usable by either Geant4 (and so BDSIM or G4Beamline) or FLUKA either from scratch or by conversion from common engineering formats, such as STEP or IGES created by industry standard CAD/CAM packages. The conversion requires an intermediate conversion to STL or similar triangular or tetrahedral tessellation description. A key capability of pyg4ometry is to mix GDML/STEP/STL geometries and visualisation of the resulting geometry and determine if there are any geometric overlaps. An example conversion of a complex geometry used in Geant4/BDSIM is presented.
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THPGW061	The K12 Beamline for the KLEVER Experiment	3726
	M.W.U. Van Dijk, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Charitonidis, N. Doble, L. Gatignon, A. Gerbershagen, E. Montbarbon, B. Rae, M.S. Rosenthal, B. Veit CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. D’Alessandro JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom M. Moulson INFN/LNF, Frascati, Italy
	The KLEVER experiment is proposed to run in the CERN ECN3 underground cavern from 2026 onward. The goal of the experiment is to measure BR(KL -> pi0 nu nu), which could yield information about potential new physics, by itself and in combination with the measurement of BR(K+ -> pi+ nu nu) of NA62. A full description will be given of the considerations in designing the new K12 beamline for KLEVER, as obtained from a purpose made simulation with FLUKA. The high intensities required by KLEVER, 2·10¹³ protons on target every 16.8s, with 5·10¹⁹ protons accumulated over 5~years, place stringent demands on adequate muon sweeping to minimize backgrounds in the detector. The target and primary dump need to be able to survive these demanding conditions, while respecting strict radiation protection criteria. A series of design choices will be shown to lead to a neutral beamline sufficiently capable of suppressing relevant backgrounds, such as photons generated by pi0 decays in the target, and Lambda -> npi0 decays, which mimic the signal decay.
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THPGW063	The "Physics Beyond Colliders" Projects for the CERN M2 Beam	3734
	D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Charitonidis, L. Gatignon, A. Gerbershagen, E. Montbarbon, B. Rae, M.S. Rosenthal, M.W.U. Van Dijk, B. Veit, V. de Jesus CERN, Geneva, Switzerland S. Cholak Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine G. D’Alessandro JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
	Physics Beyond Colliders is an exploratory study aimed at exploiting the full scientiﬁc potential of CERN’s accelerator complex up to 2040 and its scientiﬁc infrastructure through projects complementary to the existing and possible future colliders. Within the Conventional Beam Working Group (CBWG), several pro-jects for the M2 beam line in the CERN North Area were proposed, such as a successor for the COMPASS experiment, a muon programme for NA64 dark sector physics, and the MuonE proposal aiming at investigating the hadronic contribution to the vacuum polarisation. We present integration and beam optics studies for 100-160 GeV/c muon beams as well as an outlook for improvements on hadron beams, which include RF-separated options and low-energy antiproton beams and radiation studies for high intensity beams. In addition, necessary beam instrumentation upgrades for beam particle identiﬁcation and momentum measurements are discussed.
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THPGW069	Implementation of CERN Secondary Beam Lines T9 and T10 in BDSIM	3746
	G. D’Alessandro, S.T. Boogert, S.M. Gibson, L.J. Nevay, W. Shields JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom J. Bernhard, A. Gerbershagen, M.S. Rosenthal CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	CERN has a unique set of secondary beam lines, which deliver particle beams extracted from the PS and SPS accelerators after their interaction with a target, reaching energies up to 400 GeV. These beam lines provide a crucial contribution for test beam facilities and host several fixed target experiments. A correct operation of the beam lines requires precise simulations of the beam optics and studies on the beam-matter interaction, radiation protection, beam equipment survival etc. BDSIM combines tracking studies with energy deposition and beam-matter interaction simulations within one software framework. This paper presents studies conducted on secondary beams with BDSIM for the beam lines T9 and T10. We report the tracking analysis and the energy deposition along the beam line. Tracking analysis validation is demonstrated via comparison to existing code.
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Pyg4ometry : A Tool to Create Geometries for Geant4, BDSIM, G4Beamline and FLUKA for Particle Loss and Energy Deposit Studies

3244

S.T. Boogert, A. Abramov, J. Albrecht, G. D’Alessandro, L.J. Nevay, W. Shields, S.D. Walker
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Studying the energy deposits in accelerator components, mechanical supports, services, ancillary equipment and shielding requires a detailed computer readable description of the component geometry. The creation of geometries is a significant bottleneck in producing complete simulation models and reducing the effort required will provide the ability of non-experts to simulate the effects of beam losses on realistic accelerators. The paper describes a flexible and easy to use Python package to create geometries usable by either Geant4 (and so BDSIM or G4Beamline) or FLUKA either from scratch or by conversion from common engineering formats, such as STEP or IGES created by industry standard CAD/CAM packages. The conversion requires an intermediate conversion to STL or similar triangular or tetrahedral tessellation description. A key capability of pyg4ometry is to mix GDML/STEP/STL geometries and visualisation of the resulting geometry and determine if there are any geometric overlaps. An example conversion of a complex geometry used in Geant4/BDSIM is presented.

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paper received ※ 19 May 2019 paper accepted ※ 23 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019

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THPGW061

The K12 Beamline for the KLEVER Experiment

3726

M.W.U. Van Dijk, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Charitonidis, N. Doble, L. Gatignon, A. Gerbershagen, E. Montbarbon, B. Rae, M.S. Rosenthal, B. Veit
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
G. D’Alessandro
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
M. Moulson
INFN/LNF, Frascati, Italy

The KLEVER experiment is proposed to run in the CERN ECN3 underground cavern from 2026 onward. The goal of the experiment is to measure BR(KL -> pi0 nu nu), which could yield information about potential new physics, by itself and in combination with the measurement of BR(K+ -> pi+ nu nu) of NA62. A full description will be given of the considerations in designing the new K12 beamline for KLEVER, as obtained from a purpose made simulation with FLUKA. The high intensities required by KLEVER, 2·10¹³ protons on target every 16.8s, with 5·10¹⁹ protons accumulated over 5~years, place stringent demands on adequate muon sweeping to minimize backgrounds in the detector. The target and primary dump need to be able to survive these demanding conditions, while respecting strict radiation protection criteria. A series of design choices will be shown to lead to a neutral beamline sufficiently capable of suppressing relevant backgrounds, such as photons generated by pi0 decays in the target, and Lambda -> npi0 decays, which mimic the signal decay.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPGW061

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paper received ※ 30 April 2019 paper accepted ※ 23 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019

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THPGW063

The "Physics Beyond Colliders" Projects for the CERN M2 Beam

3734

D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Charitonidis, L. Gatignon, A. Gerbershagen, E. Montbarbon, B. Rae, M.S. Rosenthal, M.W.U. Van Dijk, B. Veit, V. de Jesus
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
S. Cholak
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
G. D’Alessandro
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Physics Beyond Colliders is an exploratory study aimed at exploiting the full scientiﬁc potential of CERN’s accelerator complex up to 2040 and its scientiﬁc infrastructure through projects complementary to the existing and possible future colliders. Within the Conventional Beam Working Group (CBWG), several pro-jects for the M2 beam line in the CERN North Area were proposed, such as a successor for the COMPASS experiment, a muon programme for NA64 dark sector physics, and the MuonE proposal aiming at investigating the hadronic contribution to the vacuum polarisation. We present integration and beam optics studies for 100-160 GeV/c muon beams as well as an outlook for improvements on hadron beams, which include RF-separated options and low-energy antiproton beams and radiation studies for high intensity beams. In addition, necessary beam instrumentation upgrades for beam particle identiﬁcation and momentum measurements are discussed.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPGW063

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paper received ※ 30 April 2019 paper accepted ※ 21 May 2019 issue date ※ 21 June 2019

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THPGW069

Implementation of CERN Secondary Beam Lines T9 and T10 in BDSIM

3746

G. D’Alessandro, S.T. Boogert, S.M. Gibson, L.J. Nevay, W. Shields
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
J. Bernhard, A. Gerbershagen, M.S. Rosenthal
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

CERN has a unique set of secondary beam lines, which deliver particle beams extracted from the PS and SPS accelerators after their interaction with a target, reaching energies up to 400 GeV. These beam lines provide a crucial contribution for test beam facilities and host several fixed target experiments. A correct operation of the beam lines requires precise simulations of the beam optics and studies on the beam-matter interaction, radiation protection, beam equipment survival etc. BDSIM combines tracking studies with energy deposition and beam-matter interaction simulations within one software framework. This paper presents studies conducted on secondary beams with BDSIM for the beam lines T9 and T10. We report the tracking analysis and the energy deposition along the beam line. Tracking analysis validation is demonstrated via comparison to existing code.

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