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Technical Design Report Super Fragment Separator

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DRAFT<br />

The distributions of the losses of fragment beams have been calculated with the fragmentation<br />

model of ABRABLA [122] and the simulation code for fragment separators Lieschen [123]. Figure<br />

2.4.164 shows the calculated thicknesses of the concrete walls along the <strong>Super</strong>-FRS. The thicknesses<br />

reach from ~7.0 m downstream of the target PF2 down to 6 m at the middle focal plane MF2<br />

of the main separator. In the close vicinity of the target a compact iron shielding will be used to<br />

replace the concrete. Further on concrete will be partially replaced by soil taking into account the<br />

somewhat larger absorption length.<br />

2.4.A2.2.3 Shielding of magnets behind the target and beam catcher<br />

The inevitable nuclear interaction in the target and the beam catcher requires special considerations<br />

on the damage of the magnetic elements. In addition also the heating due to radiation is a critical<br />

issue for the operation of superconducting magnets.<br />

The following magnet sections deserve special investigations:<br />

• The first quadrupole behind the target,<br />

• The dipole magnets in the 1 st Pre-<strong>Separator</strong> stage,<br />

• The first hexapole magnet behind PF1.<br />

The deposited energy in the coils of these magnets is calculated in the following by PHITS [41]<br />

simulations.<br />

Quadrupole magnets behind the target<br />

The radiation field behind the target is mainly caused by the fragments emitted in wide angles<br />

outside the acceptance of the Pre-<strong>Separator</strong> and by light secondary particles like protons and neutrons.<br />

Therefore, we have foreseen to install a (40 x 40 x 40) cm 3 iron shielding block in front of the<br />

first quadrupole magnet which stops the lighter ions and neutrons. This iron block should have an<br />

aperture just small enough to let the intense heavy ions pass. The light particles cannot be completely<br />

shielded by this iron block, therefore a detailed investigation was performed with the<br />

computer code PHITS [41]. The assumed geometry is depicted in Figure 2.4.165 and the case for<br />

10 12 238 U ions at 1500 MeV/u impinging on a 4 g/cm 2 carbon target is simulated.<br />

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