| Report number | CERN-PBC-Notes-2024-004 |
| Title | Update of Facility Technical Studies for the FPF |
| Author(s) | Boyd, Jamie (CERN) ; Gamba, Davide (CERN) ; Osborne, John Andrew (CERN) ; Bud, Tamara Alice (CERN) ; Balazs, Kincso (CERN) ; Corso, Jean-Pierre (CERN) ; Magazinik, Anastasiya (Tampere University of Technology (FI)) ; Navascues Cornago, Angel (CERN) |
| Publication | 2024 |
| Imprint | 2024-07-11 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Subject category | Accelerators and Storage Rings |
| Study | Physics Beyond Colliders |
| Project | Forward Physics Facility |
| Keywords | FPF ; Facility ; Civil Engineering ; Integration |
| Abstract | The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) has been proposed to house a set of detectors to study collider neutrinos and search for new particles in the High-Luminosity LHC era. This report provides an update to the space and infrastructure requirements of the Facility, a result of integration studies carried out by CERN technical teams in conjunction with the FPF experimental community. Previous radiation protection (RP) studies showed that access to the FPF cavern during LHC beam operation was expected to be possible. This update includes vibration studies, which indicate that no major disruptions to HL-LHC and SPS performance are expected during FPF excavation works. FPF construction, then, is not expected to interfere with the LHC and can proceed largely independent of the LHC schedule. Since the last study, a site investigation, where a core was drilled to the depth of the FPF cavern, yielded broadly positive results, confirming the reliability of the Facility design. More detailed considerations of services have been incorporated, leading to a slight increase in size of the proposed cavern. The FPF facility could be constructed within a few years of approval, with no special R&D; needed for the design. |
| Submitted by | jamie.boyd@cern.ch |
Záznam vytvorený 2024-07-11, zmenený 2024-07-13