Design and behaviour of the Large Hadron Collider external beam dumps capable of receiving 539 MJ/dump

J. Maestre, C. Torregrosa, K. Kershaw +18

Two 6-t beam dumps, made of a graphite core encapsulated in a stainless steel vessel, are used to absorb the energy of the two Large Hadron Collider (LHC) intense proton beams duri…