1. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Detailed Design of Shield House and Collimators wrt Backgrounds Yongguang Liang Just getting started – will probably take months to finalize! 1.Shield wall and entrance window design 2.Strategy for detailed design of collimator: 2 bounce system 3.Summary

2. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Possible Backgrounds Include background from target windows, beam pipe, collimators, … background from secondary reactions (Compton scattering Bremsstrahlung process, multiple scattering, …) background from inelastic reactions and Moller scattering Only ep-elastic scattering in target and consider secondaries

3. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Shield Wall and Window Design Goal: Minimize soft backgrounds near region III chamber while not introduce noise or dilution from showers Consider: 1.Location, material, and thickness of the shielding wall location of main torus and region III chamber  Z=330-430 cm 10 radiation lengths normal shielding concrete  least 1.0 m thick MAX space ~ 70 cm 2. Shape and size of shielding entrance window Found we must address more basic issues (such as the source of the upstream background, design of a “two bounce system”) before we can design a suitable entrance window.

4. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Comparison of 0.5 m Wall to 1.0 m Wall case Red: charged particles (mostly e-) Blue: neutral particles (mostly photon) 0.5m wall 1.0 m wall

5. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Source of Photon Background that hits the Quartz and Deposits > 5 MeV Energy Primary collimator X vs Z x vs z y vs z

6. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Photon Background (continued) Significant amount of  background from shower leakage at primary collimator E  > 5 MeV  signal at Quartz. Based on VPI “final” primary collimator  background ~0.08% But these studies: only ep elastic in target in the first octant Consider eight octants and inelastic reactions  get larger AND difficult to measure Reduce this background with “Two Bounce System” ie quartz NO direct line of sight to  source

7. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting View of Spectrometer from the Quartz Looking upstream from Quart location along the central scattered electron trajectory: we see * inner lips of the primary collimator opening (yellow) Qweak spectrometer is a “one bounce” system. Modified to “two bounce” system in later slide

8. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Another view of the Spectrometer Looking upstream from left edge of quartz to the spectrometer: See *adjacent octant opening, *minitorus(violet), *upstream cleanup collimator (green).

9. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Block line of sight between quartz and primary collimator

10. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Demonstration of “Lintel Collimator” 60 cm downstream of Downstream Cleanup Collimator Looking upstream from Quart location along the central scattered electron trajectory with * “lintel collimator” * primary collimator thickness 21.66 cm  5.25 cm Defining collimator barely seen

11. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting From Left Edge of Quartz with “Lintel Collimator” 60 cm downstream of Downstream Cleanup Collimator

12. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Elastic Collimator Detailed Design Strategy Reduce  background from the defining collimator  two bounce system 1. Change primary collimator from Lead to Tungsten (W- Cu) Reduces the background from 0.08% to 0.04% 2. Cost management: reduce primary collimator thickness 21.66 cm  5.25 cm AND this 15 radiation lengths is sufficient 3. Cantilever a lintel from downstream collimator to block line of light between quartz and defining collimator 4. Move defining collimator slightly upstream if necessary (?) 5. Optimize primary collimator tilt angles (both x and y directions) 6. Finalize upstream cleanup and beam-defining collimation Iterate with region I, II, III folks, VPI acceptance folks, and Neven to make sure we DON'T break anything. Finally, Neven's background simulation needs to be repeated with the final collimator configuration.

13. October 2005 Qweak Collaboration Meeting Summary * We are just getting started on the detailed collimator design with respect to backgrounds using the outlined strategy * General shape of elastic e envelope will not change * Work in Progess!