Author: Bernhard, J.
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WEPAB185 Target Bypass Beam Optics for Future High Intensity Fixed Target Experiments in the CERN North Area 3046
 
  • G.L. D’Alessandro, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Doble, L. Gatignon, A. Gerbershagen, B. Rae, F.M. Velotti
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • S.M. Gibson
    JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
 
  Several of the proposed experiments for operation at the K12 beam line would profit from significant beam intensity increase. Among those, there is the KLEVER experiment that would require an intensity of 2x1013 protons per 4.8 s long spill. The main goal of the experiment is to measure BR(KL->pi0 nu nu) to test the Standard Model structure by itself, and in combination with results from NA62 for BR(K±>pi+ nu nu). NA62 could also profit from higher intensities, and could be run in a new configuration called NA62HI(gher intensity). In the current configuration the beam is transported from the SPS to the TT24 beamline. This beamline leads to the T4 target that attenuates the beam for P42. After T4 the beam is directed into the P42 beamline before impinging on the T10 target and creating the particles necessary for the experiment. Those are finally transported to the detector via K12. This paper presents the idea of partially bypassing T4 and changing the P42 beamline configuration in order to have a sufficiently small beam size at the T10 target for both KLEVER and NA62-HI. Optics studies are developed in MADX and the AppLE.py, software developed at CERN.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB185  
About • paper received ※ 17 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 01 July 2021       issue date ※ 27 August 2021  
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WEPAB186 Studies for the K12 High-Intensity Kaon Beam at CERN 3049
 
  • G.L. D’Alessandro, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Doble, L. Gatignon, A. Gerbershagen, R. Marchevski, B. Rae, S. Schuchmann, F.W. Stummer, M.W.U. Van Dijk
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • S.T. Boogert, S.M. Gibson, L.J. Nevay
    JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
 
  The NA62 experiment is a fixed target experiment located in the North Area of CERN and has as main goal the measurement of the branching ratio of the rare decay K±>pi+vv. The primary proton beam from the SPS accelerator interacts with the T10 beryllium target and the generated 75 GeV/c secondary particles, containing about 6% of positive kaons, are transported by the K12 beamline to the NA62 experiment. Studies in this paper present detailed simulations of the K12 beamline developed in both FLUKA and BDSIM codes, which reproduce the current configuration of K12 for the NA62 experiment. The beam optics parameters of K12 are studied in BDSIM and compared to MADX optics and tracking calculations. The models in FLUKA and BDSIM are used for beam studies and muon production at various locations along the beamline, and the parameters obtained from simulations are benchmarked against data recorded by the experiment. The impact of the Cherenkov kaon tagging detector (CEDAR) on the beam quality is calculated for two different gas compositions in view of a possible upgrade of the detector.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB186  
About • paper received ※ 17 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 01 July 2021       issue date ※ 27 August 2021  
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THPAB143 M2 Experimental Beamline Optics Studies for Next Generation Muon Beam Experiments at CERN 4041
 
  • D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, M. Brugger, N. Charitonidis, G.L. D’Alessandro, A. Gerbershagen, E. Montbarbon, C.A. Mussolini, E.G. Parozzi, B. Rae, B.M. Veit
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • L. Gatignon
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
 
  In the context of the Physics Beyond Colliders Project, various new experiments have been proposed for the M2 beamline at the CERN North Area fixed target experimental facility. The experiments include MUonE, NA64µ, and the successor to the COMPASS experiment, tentatively named AMBER/NA66. The AMBER/NA66 collaboration proposes to build a QCD facility requiring conventional muon and hadron beams for runs up to 2024 in the first phase of the experiment. MUonE aims to measure the hadronic contribution to the vacuum polarization in the context of the (gµ-2) anomaly with a setup longer than 40 m and a 160 GeV/c high intensity, low divergence muon beam. NA64µ is a muon beam program for dark sector physics requiring a 100 - 160 GeV/c muon beam with a 15-25 m long setup. All three experiments request similar beam times up to 2024 with compelling physics programs, which required launching extensive studies for integration, installation, beam optics, and background estimations. The experiments will be presented along with details of the studies performed to check their feasibility and compatibility with an emphasis on the updated optics for these next-generation muon beam experiments.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-THPAB143  
About • paper received ※ 17 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 20 July 2021       issue date ※ 25 August 2021  
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