A design study of interaction halls and assembly procedures for a solenoidal detector at the SSC

This report presents conceptual designs for interaction halls and assembly procedures for solenoidal-type detectors at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). Previous design studies for detector halls and related facilities can be found in the SSC Conceptual Design Report (1986), the Proceedings of the Summer Study on the Physics of the Super Collider, the Proceedings of the Workshop on Experiments, Detectors, and Experimental Areas for the Super Collider (1987), the Site-Specific Study of SSC Support Facilities for Four Generic Detector Designs (1989), and the SSC Site-Specific Conceptual Design Report (1990). These previous reports of necessity focused on a variety of detectors and provided only roughly sized facilities and outlines of detector assembly and schedules. This report focuses on a solenoidal-type detector and presents in further detail the assembly procedures for several options for such a detector. Based on these assembly studies, interaction halls and surface facilities are conceptually designed and detector assembly schedules are formulated. The specific goals of this study are: To assemble detector designs for major design options of the solenoidal- type detector. The options include a baseline detector with square muon steel and a modularized scintillator or warm liquid calorimeter, a detector with octagonal muon barrel steel andmore » endcap air core torrids, and a detector with liquid argon calorimetry. To model the assembly sequence for each option in detail, including required assembly tooling and environment. To develop the required hall design for each option, including space requirements, floor loading and movement requirements, crane requirements, shaft specifications, and safety requirements. To obtain from the above a detector assembly schedule. Some manpower estimates area also given.« less