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Influence of the high granularity calorimeter stainless steel absorbers onto
the Compact Muon Solenoid inner magnetic field
Vyacheslav Klyukhin1,2 for the CMS Collaboration
1*Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, RU-119991, Moscow, Russia
2CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
*Corresponding author. E-mail : Vyacheslav.Klyukhin@cern.ch; ORCID: 0000-0002-8577-6531
Abstract
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is a general-purpose experimental setup at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) at CERN to investigate the production of new particles in the proton-proton collisions at a
centre of mass energy 13 TeV. The third run of the data taken is started in April 2022 and will continue till the
end of 2025. Then, during a long shutdown time, the existing CMS hadron endcap calorimeter will be replaced
with a new high granularity calorimeter (HGCal) designed for the higher LHC luminosity. The HGCal contains
the stainless-steel absorber plates with a relative permeability limited by a value of 1.05 from estimation of the
electromagnetic forces acting on this slightly magnetic material. To exclude the surprises with possible
perturbation of the inner magnetic flux density in the region of the charged particle tracking system, an influence
of this additional material onto the quality of the magnetic field inside the inner tracker volume is investigated
at this limited value of the permeability of stainless steel . The three-dimensional model of the CMS magnet is
used for this purpose. The method of the magnetic field double integrals characterizing the charged particle
momentum resolution the first time is applied to the CMS detector and the first time is described in the journal
publication. The results obtained with this method are presented in detail and discussed.
Keywords : electromagnetic modelling, magnetic flux density, magnetic field integrals, superconducting coil,
charged particle momentum resolution, inner tracker.
Article Highlights
• The method of the magnetic field double integrals to investigate a quality of the magnetic field in the
particle detector is fully described.
• The possible perturbation of the magnetic field inside the Compact Muon Solenoid inner tracker with the
replacement of the endcap hadronic calorimeter is investigated.
• The estimations on the degradation of the charged particle momentum resolution are presented.
1 Introduction
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector [1] at the Large Hardon Collider (LHC) [2] is a multi-purpose
experimental setup to register the charged and neutral particles created in the proton-proton collisions at a center
of mass energy 13 TeV. The detector includes a wide-aperture superconducting thin solenoid [3] with a diameter
of 6 m and a length of 12.5 m operated with a direct current of 18.164 kA to create the central magnetic flux
density B0 of 3.81 T. Inside the superconducting coil, the major subdetectors of particles are located around the
interaction point of proton beams: a silicon pixel and strip tracking detectors to register the charged particles in a
cylinder volume with a diameter of 2.27 m and a length of 5.6 m; a solid crystal electromagnetic calorimeter to
register electrons, positrons and gamma rays; a barrel and endcap hadronic calorimeters of total absorption to
register the energy of all the particles except of muons and neutrinos. The muons are registered outside the solenoid
coil in the muon spectrometer.
After finishing Run 3 of data taken at the LHC in the end of 2025, the existing CMS plastic scintillator-based
hadron endcap calorimeter will be replaced by a new High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCal) containing the silicon
sensors and stainless-steel absorber plates [4]. The relative permeability of the stainless steel is assuming to be
well below 1.05 that is limited by the axial forces attracting the absorber plates to the center of the CMS
superconducting solenoid. This study investigates the influence of the HGCal absorber plates with an extreme
permeability value of 1.05 onto the CMS solenoid inner magnetic field in the location of the pixel and strip tracking
detectors. The study is based on the calculation and comparison of the magnetic field double integrals
characterizing the resolution in the charged particle momentum measurements.
The method of the magnetic field double integrals has been proposed in 1993 [5] and was used in the
investigation of the magnetic field quality in the different options [6–8] of the magnetic system for the FCC-hh
detector [9] at the proposing Future Circular Collider [10].
The structure of this article is as follows: in Section 2 the method of the magnetic field double integrals applied
to the CMS inner magnetic field is described in detail; in Section 3 the model of the HGCal stainless steel absorber