Dynamics of liquid metal jets penetrating a strong magnetic field in high-power colliders

Author

Hassanein, A. ; Konkashbaev, I.

Author_Institution

Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

624

Abstract

One very important problem of future high-power colliders, such as the muon collider, is to create an effective and reliable target system that is able to withstand a harsh environment and generate effective high-flux muon beams. Liquid metal jets (pulsed or continuous) are proposed as potential target candidates. Such a proposal poses two critical problems: penetration of a free liquid jet inside the required strong inhomogeneous magnetic field (20 T) and the fragmentation of liquid due to the intense sudden heating by the proton beam and the resultant magnetohydrodynamic instabilities. In this study,, we analyzed the dynamic motion of a free liquid metal jet entering a strong inhomogeneous field by using a new two-dimensional numerical model implemented in the HEIGHTS package for arbitrary jet parameters

Keywords

colliding beam accelerators; high energy physics instrumentation computing; jets; liquid metals; magnetohydrodynamics; muons; nuclear bombardment targets; particle beam dynamics; proton beams; 20 T; HEIGHTS package; arbitrary jet parameters; effective high-flux muon beams; free liquid jet; high-power colliders; intense sudden heating; liquid fragmentation; liquid metal jet dynamics; magnetohydrodynamic instabilities; proton beam; strong magnetic field; target system; Colliding beam devices; Heating; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic fields; Magnetic liquids; Magnetohydrodynamics; Mesons; Muon colliders; Particle beams; Proposals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.987586

Filename

987586