A concept of the photon collider beam dump

Abstract

Photon beams at photon colliders are very narrow, powerful (10--15 MW) and cannot be spread by fast magnets (because photons are neutral). No material can withstand such energy density. For the ILC-based photon collider, we suggest using a 150 m long, pressurized (P ~ 4 atm) argon gas target in front of a water absorber which solves the overheating and mechanical stress problems. The neutron background at the interaction point is estimated and additionally suppressed using a 20 m long hydrogen gas target in front of the argon.

9 pages, 7 figures, Latex. Talk at Int. conf. on instrumentation for colliding beam physics (INSTR 2014), Feb. 24 - March 1, 2014, BINP, Novosibirsk. To be published in JINST

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