Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2013

Publication Title

North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2013)

Pages

508-511

Conference Name

North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2013), 29 September- 4 October 2013, Pasadena, California

Abstract

The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) will be a next-generation facility for the study of the strong interaction (QCD). JLab's MEIC is designed for high luminosities of up to 10³⁴ cm s. This is achieved in part due to an aggressively small beta-star, which imposes stringent requirements on the collider rings' dynamical properties. Additionally, one of the unique features of MEIC is a full-acceptance detector with a dedicated, small-angle, high-resolution detection system, capable of covering a wide range of momenta (and charge-to-mass ratios) with respect to the original ion beam to enable access to new physics. The detector design relies on a number of features, such as a 50 mrad beam crossing angle, large-aperture ion and electron final focusing quads and spectrometer dipoles as well as a large machine-element-free detection space downstream of the final focusing quads. We present an interaction region design developed with close integration of the detector and beam dynamical aspects. The dynamical aspect of the design rests on a symmetry-based concept for compensation of non-linear effects. The optics and geometry have been optimized to accommodate the detection requirements and to ensure the interaction region's modularity for easiness of integration into the collider ring lattices. As a result, the design offers an excellent detector performance combined with the necessary non-linear dynamical properties.

Rights

© 2013 by JACoW.

Published under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.

Original Publication Citation

Lin, F., Brindza, P., Derbenev, Y. S., Morozov, V. S., Ent, R., Nadel-Turonski, P., Zhang, Y., Hyde, C. E., & Sullivan, M. (2013). Interaction region design and detector integration at JLAB's MEIC. In T. Satogata, C. Petit-Jean-Genaz, & V. Schaa (Eds.), North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2013) (pp. 508-511). JACoW. https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/PAC2013/papers/tupac28.pdf

ORCID

0000-0001-7282-8120 (Hyde)

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