MC simulation for Double Toroid Spectrometer (DTS)


Introduction

The motivations for a High Intensity, Large Acceptance Spectrometer (tentatively, HILAS) are outlined here. Several designs have been considered:
  1. SoLID large solenoid
  2. Radial field magnet
  3. Double toroid spectrometer (DTS)
This document is dedicated to the DDT option.

Motivation

Copied from the SoLID page.

The main purpose is to measure the Parity Violation effects in DIS (PVDIS) at XBj>0.6 with an accuracy of about 1%. Due to a small production cross section this spectrometer has to run at a very high luminosity (L≅5.4·1038 cm-2s-1= 540 pb-1s-1) on hydrogen, while providing an acceptance of ≅50% in the angular range of interest. No existing or planned device at JLab can be used for these experiments.

The first option considered is a magnetic spectrometer based on a large solenoid. It is tentatively called Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID). The target is located in the middle of the solenoid. In order to improve the ratio of the DIS signal to various backgrounds a system of baffles has to be designed and accurately positioned between the target and the detectors. The azimuthal acceptance is about 30%. A way to increase the acceptance is to use toroidal magnets. This is the topic of this document.

PVDIS kinematics

The goal is to measure the PV asymmetry in DIS with an accuracy of about 1% at XBj>0.6 and W²>4 GeV². The maximum beam energy is 11 GeV. The PV asymmetry is about:
A ≅ 3·GF/(5·πα√2)·Q²· (a1+a2·(1-z²)/(1+z²)) ≅ 0.84·10-4·Q² ,
where z=E′/E,
a1=3·(1/4-5/9·sin²θW), a2=3·(1/4-sin²θW),
GF=1.166·10-5 GeV-2, sin²θW=0.236

The figure of merit is FoM ≅ A²·Nevents. The figure of merit dependence on the scattering angle is presented on the next plot.


The figure of merit curve flattens out at small angles because of lower and lower asymmetry. For W²>6 GeV² one should select θ>24°.


On this picture, the useful area is located between the lines XBj>0.55 and W²>4 GeV². The latter cut effectively limits the range to XBj<0.75 The lower cut θ>22° removes the high-rate background at small angles. The upper cut is chosen at θ<35°, taking into account the lower FoM at large angles and the features of the SoLID/DDS. For a different spectrometer (a dipole-based one, for example), one may consider larger angles.

Rates

For optimizing the spectrometer performance, we consider the following kinematic range: It follows:

At the luminosity of 540 pb-1s-1 the full DIS rate in the given kinematical range:

  1. 0.55<XBj<0.75:   ≅35.0 kHz with average asymmetry ⟨A⟩≅0.00071
  2. 0.65<XBj<0.75:   ≅  9.3 kHz with average asymmetry ⟨A⟩≅0.00078
Let us assume that the spectrometer's acceptance is 100%, while the total efficiency (beam delivery, DAQ, event reconstruction etc.) is 50%. Then, in order to obtain a 1% statistical accuracy one needs:
  1. 0.55<XBj<0.75:   ≅20·109 events, 13 days
  2. 0.65<XBj<0.75:   ≅16·109 events, 40 days

DTS

Concept

With a toroidal spectrometer, the tracking detectors can be positioned in a shade from the target view, downstream of the magnet. However, with long targets, the momentum can not be measured. Therefore, we are considering two toroidal magnets:
  1. TOR1: a strong magnet focusing the DIS electrons nearly parallel to the beam;
  2. TOR2: a magnet of the same dimensions as TOR1, but weaker, providing the momentum measurement.
Both TOR1 and TOR2 bend electrons toward the beam. The detectors are located between TOR1 and TOR2 and downstream of TOR2, all in the shade from the target. The fields are defined by:
  1. TOR1 focuses the DIS electrons in the given kinematic range
  2. TOR2 provides a sufficient momentum resolution without reducing the acceptance.
The azimuthal acceptance can can be as large as 90%, while all types of backgrounds are expected to be much lower than in the SoLID design. Drawbacks are the need to build new magnets, the limitation to particles with one charge (a solenoid without baffles can take both), potentially larger error on the scattering angle, and, possibly, others.

Ideal Optics

I found that a regular B∝1/R field toroid does not focus well the particles of interest. I am considering a toroid with a constant field, with the current, crossing a circle of radius R, being I∝R. A coil is filled uniformly with the wire.

An optimized optics using ideal toroids with constant fields is shown on the next picture. The baffles at small angles shade the detectors from the target. The fields are:


Toroids

The average azimuthal (along φ) field at a radius R is BφoI⁄(2πR)=2·10-7I⁄R, where R is the current flowing through the circle of radius R. The units are T, m, A.

TOR1 needs a uniform field of 2.5 T at R=0.4-1.5 m. This requires I=5 MA at R=0.4 m and I=18.75 MA at R=1.5 m, changing linearly with R. For comparison, the G0 magnet provides a full current current of I=5.76 MA at R≅0.5-1.5 m.

The SC cable which can be used was assumed to be a 20x5 mm² copper bar containing 36 "strands". Each strand is a round wire 0.6 mm diameter, consisting of 36% of superconductor and 64% of copper.

Comparison of the tentative TOR1 parameters with the G0 magnet
Parameter G0 TOR1
Ideal Calculation 1 Calculation 2
Number of coils 8 8 8 12
Full current along Z at R=0.4 m 5.76 MA 5.00 MA 5.00 MA 5.00 MA
Full current along Z at R=1.5 m 5.76 MA 18.75 MA 18.75 MA 18.75 MA
Superconductor cable 20 strands 36 strands 36 strands 36 strands
Cross section of the copper support cable 20×5 mm² same same same
Current density 5000 A/cm² 10000 A/cm² 10000 A/cm² 6666 A/cm²
Cable layers per coil 4 2 4 4
Coil cross section, at R=0.4 m 8×18 cm² 4×15.6 cm² 8×8 cm² 8×8 cm²
Full coil thickness in φ 15 cm 11 cm 15 cm 15 cm
Bφ at ≅0.4 m 2.88 T 2.50 T 2.30 T 2.30 T
Bφ at 1.5 m 0.77 T 2.50 T 1.43 T 1.64 T
Bmax - - 7.6 T 5.5 T
Full current density dI/dR at R=0.4-1.5 m none 125 kA/cm 125 kA/cm ? 125 kA/cm ?
Cables per unit length in R, at R=0.4-1.5 m none 0.78 per cm 1.25 per cm 1.25 per cm
Coil cross section, at Rmax≅1.5 m 8×18 cm² 4×60 cm² 8×30 cm² 8×30 cm²
Full number of turs per coil - - 196 196
Stored energy, MJ 7.6 - 52 45

For the starting point, the G0 toroidal magnet was simulated. The coil sizes are taking from the appropriate drawings, with a few mm accuracy. The coil consists of 36 turns per layer, with 4 layers.

Calculated field map for G0, 8 coils (1) at Z=0, at I=5kA per wire (turn).

The field of the G0 toroid is much lower than 2.3 T, needed to focus the DIS electrons in the range of interest.

The TOR1 coil consists of 49 turns per layer, with 4 layers.

Calculated field map for 8 coils (1) at Z=0, at I=10kA per wire (turn).

Calculated field map for 12 coils (2) at Z=0, at I=6.66kA per wire (turn).

A more realistic coil would have rounder windings. Also the coil is made longer in order to reduce the current. This coil consists of 47 turns per layer. 8 coils with 6 layers/coil (type 12) can produce the needed field at 6.66 kA.

Calculated field map for 8 coils (type 12, 6 layers/coil) at Z=0, at I=6.66kA per wire (turn). The maximum field in the coil is 6 T.

Calculated field map for 16 coils (type 11, 4 layers/coil) at Z=0, at I=5.00kA per wire (turn). 16 coils may provide a match for the 8-coil G0 magnet. The maximum field in the coil is 4 T. It might be possible to use only 2 layers/coil at 10 kA.

Acceptance

Effects caused by the field non-unoformity

The azimuthal field on the central radial line of the sector drops with the radius, which causes a drop of efficiency for large θ angles at the sector center. This drop is relatively smaller for the 12-coils TOR1(2).

Detected sample, θ-φ-dependence, for the field maps (1) and (2). For TOR2 the ideal toroid was taken, without any absorption in the coils.


Close to the coils, at the lower radii of R<100 cm, the field has a radial component. This component cases a "defocusing" of the trajectories at smaller scattering angles, moving them toward the coil. At larger angles some focusing occurs, with the trajectories moved to the center of the sector. The effect is illustrated on the next picture for the map (2), made with no absorption in the ideal TOR2 coils. The effect leads to a loss of acceptance, since some of the "defocused" electrons hit the coil of TOR2.

The trajectories for DIS at φ=12°, 22°<θ<35°, 0.65;<x<0.85. The field map (1) was used.

Coils of TOR2

It was assumed that TOR2 has the same geometry as TOR1 and the same field map, scaled down by a factor 0.4. No serious optimization of the scaling factor has been done so far. Because of the lower field the coil thickness was reduced from 15 to 11 cm (2 layers instead of 4, plus the cryostat).

Results

The acceptance was calculated in a range of: It was required, that the scattered electron hits the 1-st detector of the 1-st arm (between the TOR1 and TOR2 magnets), as well as the calorimeter (the last detector of the 2-nd arm, downstream or TOR2) . For the triggering and DAQ purposes it would be simpler to keep all the sectors of the spectrometer independent on each other. Therefore, the particle should cross the same sectors in both arms.

Detected sample, θ-φ-dependence, for the field map (1), with 8 sectors. For the TOR2 a scaled copy of TOR1 was taken, with thinner coils (11 cm instead of 15 cm). The right plot demonstrate the effect of the sectors matching.


Detected sample, θ-φ-dependence, for the field map (2), with 12 sectors. For the TOR2 a scaled copy of TOR1 was taken, with thinner coils (11 cm instead of 15 cm).


Acceptance of the DTS with different coil configurations
Configuration Acceptance
TOR2 - no absorption TOR2 - regular Sectors match
  8 coils, map (1) 0.53 0.39 0.31
12 coils, map (2) 0.51 0.34 0.31

Kinematical resolutions

In order to estimate the kinematical resolutions of the setup, as the momentum, the scattering angle as well as Q² and XBj resolutions, an empirical method was used. DIS electrons in the range of interest were simulated and traced through the setup using GEANT3, with all physical processes turned off, apart from the energy loss. Since the magnetic field is not really axially symmetric, only particles produced in the central plane of one sector were simulated. For other azimuthal angles, a more complex procedure has to be applied. The straight parts of the trajectory (T1 between two magnets and T2 downstream of the second magnet) are reconstructed assuming the ideal detector resolution. The coordinates of the T1 intersections with the central planes of two magnets are calculated: R1=T1(Z=ZTOR1) and R2=T2(Z=ZTOR2). Both R1 and R2 were split in 1-cm intervals and in each interval the simulated data were approximated by a linear combination of certain variables ( θ1 and θ2 denote the trajectory angles in the radial plane): The model was accurate enough to provide a momentum resolution of 0.04% and an angular resolution of 0.5 mrad in the absence of multiple scattering and detector smearing, which is illustrated by the next figure. The 12-coils TOR1 and TOR2 were used, both providing the field map 2, but the TOR2 field was reduced by a factor 0.4.

The next figure shows the obtained energy resolution for data simulated with the physics processes included and with the ideal detector resolution.

The next two figures shows the obtained energy resolution for data simulated with the physics processes included and with the detector resolution of 0.2mm and 0.4mm. In this range, the resolutions are dominated by the multiple scattering and the energy loss, rather than by the detector resolution.

A different magnet configuration simulated included 8-coils TOR1 and TOR2. For TOR1 the field map 1 was used, the field scaled up by a factor 1.1. For TOR2 the G0 field map was used. The field integral of the G0 magnet is smaller than the integral of TOR2 from the previous configuration. Still, the resolutions are only slightly worse than in the previous case (see the next figure).

Resolutions and acceptances of various configurations
Configuration TOR1 TOR2 Acceptance Resolutions
σX,Y=0.0 mm σX,Y=0.2 mm σX,Y=0.5 mm
coils map scale coils map scale regular sector
match
σP/P
%
σθ
mrad
σQ²/Q²
%
σXBj
 
σP/P
%
σθ
mrad
σQ²/Q²
%
σXBj
 
σP/P
%
σθ
mrad
σQ²/Q²
%
σXBj
 
2 12 2 1.0 12 2 0.4 0.34 0.31 0.71 2.95 0.87 0.0041 0.74 3.10 0.90 0.0042
3 8 1 1.0 8 G0 1.0 0.39 0.31 1.00 4.20 1.11 0.0050 1.05 4.48 1.12 0.0052 1.13 5.83 1.14 0.0058


E-Mail : gen@jlab.org
Last updated: Apr 1, 2008