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In the LASA (Laboratorio Acceleratori e Superconduttività Applicata) laboratory of the Milan section of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) a facility for testing superconducting cavities is operating. The possibility to operate with a generation of radiation up to 10 MeV and more requires a careful evaluation of the shielding efficiency of the existing bunker The calculation was performed with the FLUKA code, the whole cryostat, bunker and ceiling of the building was taken into account. Two hypothesis for the radiation source have been adopted to carry out the calculations: the very conservative hypothesis of 10 MeV electron pencil beam, and the second hypothesis (maybe more realistic) of an isotropic 10 MeV electron source. In the less conservative hypothesis a safe operation is guarantee by the foreseen shielding. The simulations show that even in the most conservative hypothesis a negligible amount of photons can exit the bunker, without interaction with the simulated detectors. In the future, at the starting of the tests in the upgraded configuration, direct measurements will be used to definitely check the shielding adopted. |
