학술논문

Radiation Environment in the Large Hadron Collider During the 2022 Restart and Related RHA Implications
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 71(4):607-617 Apr, 2024
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Large Hadron Collider
Particle beams
Protons
Radiation monitoring
Layout
Synchrotrons
Semiconductor device measurement
Beam loss monitors (BLMs)
CERN
FGClite
large hadron collider (LHC)
optical fiber
radiation hardness assurance
RadMon
single-event effect
total ionizing dose (TID)
Language
ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
Abstract
In this work, we present the radiation environment of the large hadron collider (LHC), focusing on the year 2022, the first after the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) (2019–2021). We highlight the most prominent radiation-level changes with respect to the 2018 operation, commenting on the related Radiation Hardness Assurance implications. In addition to presenting data from well-established radiation monitors, such as beam loss monitors (BLMs) and RadMons, we demonstrated the excellent capabilities of the recently deployed distributed optical fiber radiation sensing (DOFRS) covering selected regions of the LHC. Profiting from the static random access memories (SRAMs) deployed along the accelerator and its shielded alcoves, we demonstrated their capabilities for distributed SEU monitoring.