Investigating the Impact of alternative LHC optics on accelerator backgrounds at FASER using BDSIM

Alex Keyken; Bjorn Lindstrom; Stephen Gibson

doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC25-WEPS045

Investigating the Impact of alternative LHC optics on accelerator backgrounds at FASER using BDSIM

Alex Keyken, Bjorn Lindstrom, Stephen Gibson

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Abstract

Alternative configurations around the ATLAS experiment are investigated aiming to reduce muon rates at forward physics experiments such as FASER and SND@LHC. The Geant4 toolkit BDSIM is used to propagate muons through a model of a section of the LHC and the TI12 tunnel, where the FASER experiment is located. We compare the muon rates in BDSIM with FASER data collected during dedicated tests in the LHC. Results show a significant worsening of the background with the non-nominal polarity configuration of the triplet quadrupoles, used in 2024. The horizontal crossing angle further increased the background, however a partial mitigation of approximately 10% was found using a set of orbit corrector magnets. Additionally, nominal triplet polarity was favorable for both vertical and horizontal crossing angles. This work served as benchmark of simulations that will be used to validate future configurations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IPAC2025 Proceedings
Publisher	JACoW Publishing
Pages	2341-2344
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-95450-248-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC25-WEPS045 https://doi.org/https://indico.jacow.org/event/81/contributions/8139
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2025

Keywords

Accelerator modelling

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