CLIC Muon Sweeper Design

TL;DR

This paper presents the design of a magnetized muon sweeper for the CLIC project, aiming to reduce muon background from halo muons generated along the beam delivery system, using OPERA for design and BDSIM for simulation.

Contribution

It introduces a realistic muon sweeper design for CLIC and evaluates its effectiveness using Monte Carlo simulations.

Findings

Muon background reduction estimated with BDSIM

Design parameters optimized with OPERA

Potential improvement in detector performance

Abstract

There are several background sources which may affect the analysis of data and detector performans at the CLIC project. One of the important background source is halo muons, which are generated along the beam delivery system (BDS), for the detector performance. In order to reduce muon background, magnetized muon sweepers have been used as a shielding material that is already described in a previous study for CLIC [1]. The realistic muon sweeper has been designed with OPERA. The design parameters of muon sweeper have also been used to estimate muon background reduction with BDSIM Monte Carlo simulation code [2, 3].