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Can beam ports, magnets, and neutrons live together in harmony?
Presented by: Jeff Latkowski HAPL Program Workshop Naval Research Laboratory March 3-4, 2005 Work performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-Eng-48.
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Overview Radiation limits for superconducting magnets
Proposed beam layouts & required modifications Radiation levels for unshielded magnets Preliminary shielding design & results
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What limits the radiation lifetime of superconducting magnets?
Total dose to the insulators is limited to 100 MGy (ref. 1); tends to be dominated (>95%) by contribution from gamma-rays “Conservative limit” for the fast neutron fluence (En 0.1 MeV) in NbTi superconductor is 1019 n/cm2 (ref. 1): Room-temperature anneal required after 3 1018 n/cm2 70% recovery assumed Inorganic insulators that may be usable with high-temperature superconductors (HTS) offer significantly (~103) greater limits (ref. 2) HTS appear to have fast neutron fluence limits that are at least as good as that for NbTi (ref. 2) References: (1) Sawan and Walstrom (2) Bromberg, ARIES meeting (Jan. 2002)
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A 5-coil layout has been proposed by Bertie Robson
60 beam ports in the Omega direct-drive configuration 60-cm-diameter ports at top & bottom 55-cm-tall slot at the equator
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Plots of the neutronics model shows beams, chamber, blanket, neutron dumps & coils
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Plots of the neutronics model shows beams, chamber, blanket, neutron dumps & coils
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The 1st and 5th set of coils had to be moved inward by 1.25 meters
top & bottom coils get clobbered by beams
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Malcolm McGeoch has proposed a 64-beam layout with 4-fold symmetry
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The 2nd / 4th coils were moved 30 cm towards the equator avoid the nearest beamports
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Without shielding the superconducting coils would not last long
Estimated lifetimes from an insulator dose perspective
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An un-optimized shielding design extends lifetimes to the desired range
Shielding has been added to each coil in the McGeoch layout: Many optimization studies could be envisioned for the coil shielding: minimum cost, thickness, mass, etc. Note: Arbitrarily selected a flibe blanket (1-m-thick with 5% structure and 95% flibe) TBR = 1.09
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Plots of the neutronics model shows beams, chamber, blanket, neutron dumps & coils
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