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RIS citation export for THPRB108: LBNF Hadron Absorber: Updated Mechanical Design and Analysis for 2.4 MW Operation

TY  - CONF
AU  - Deshpande, A.
AU  - Anderson, K.
AU  - Gollwitzer, K.E.
AU  - Hartsell, B.D.
AU  - Hylen, J.
AU  - Sidorov, V.I.
AU  - Tariq, S.
ED  - Boland, Mark
ED  - Tanaka, Hitoshi
ED  - Button, David
ED  - Dowd, Rohan
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Tan, Eugene
TI  - LBNF Hadron Absorber: Updated Mechanical Design and Analysis for 2.4 MW Operation
J2  - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019
CY  - Melbourne, Australia
T2  - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3  - 10
LA  - english
AB  - The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) Hadron Absorber is located downstream of the decay pipe. It consists of actively cooled aluminum and steel blocks surrounded by steel and concrete shielding. Majority of the beam power is deposited in the absorber core which is water cooled. The surrounding steel and concrete shielding are air-cooled. The absorber provides radiation protection to personnel and keeps soil and ground activation levels to below allowable limits. It is designed for 2.4 MW beam operations. The total heat load deposited into the absorber is approximately 400 kW. The current design considers the longer 4-interaction length target of the optimized beam design. In addition, the ‘bafflette’ around the target reduces the energy deposited into the absorber. For this reason, the sculpting in the aluminum core blocks, which was in the previous design, was removed, making the design uniform and less complicated. In addition, the uniformity of the absorber makes it easier to understand the muon monitor data. Steady state thermal, structural, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of critical absorber aluminum and steel components during steady state operations is discussed herein. A similar analysis for a 120 GeV, 10 µs pulse, accident condition is also discussed. A preliminary design for the accident pulse prevention system that protects the absorber is also described.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 4078
EP  - 4080
KW  - operation
KW  - hadron
KW  - site
KW  - simulation
KW  - shielding
DA  - 2019/06
PY  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-95450-208-0
DO  - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPRB108
UR  - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/thprb108.pdf
ER  -