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Searching for a Suitable Salt Structure for SalSa
by
Allen OdianSLAC
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Requirements
• Large Volume (Many tens of cubic kilometers)
• Long Microwave Attenuation Length (Hundreds of meters for frequencies between 100 MHz and a few GHz)
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Types of Large Volume Salt Deposits
• Evaporites (Ancient sea beds) DOE Site WIPP in New Mexico 600 meter thick Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
• Salt Domes (Geologically Processed Evaporite) United Salt Co’s Hockley Mine in Texas
• Both are ~ 300 meters below ground surface
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Cerenkov Radiation, Coherent and Incoherent
• Spectrum, dN/d ~ (Ze)2
• Incoherent, e-s and e+s, Ntotal ~ Energy (E)
• Ne-/Ne+ ~ 1.2, Charge excess, Nexcess ~ 0.1 Nt
• Coherence length ~ bunch size (few cms) dN/d ~ E2 for > bunch size
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Cerenkov Spectrum for 1016 ev Shower
Cerenkov Spectrum
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Salt Properties for Microwaves
• Density = 2.2 gm/cm3 , X0 = 24 gm/cm2
• Dielectric Constant = 6, tan < 10-4
• Ratio Im /Re = tan • Att length Latt : Latt / = 1/tan
• Latt = f() , = 0/sqrt
• For 1 GHz 0 = 0.3 m, = 0.12 m
• For tan = 10-4, Latt = 400 m
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Maximizing the Signal
• Power P is radiated for about a nanosecond
• P ~ E2 ~ E2 ~ 1/R2: E ~ 1/R ~ Voltage on Antenna
• V ~ E x Antenna Design (frequency)
Cerenkov Radiation lobes are linearly polarized (Antennas need to preserve this)
Energy Threshold set by R, Noise, and Antenna
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View of WIPP
WIPP Machine Shop
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Test of WIPP Site
• Ceiling of salt tunnel had two sets of three 10 cm diameter holes, depth 6.7 meters, 22.9 meters apart
• Transmitter at end hole, ratio of signal at two separations gives attenuation length
• Study Latt ~ f(Frequency and Depth)
• Results show presence of water n = 2.8 not 2.45
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Latt vs Frequency at WIPP
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WIPP as a Salsa Site
• Wipp is not suitable for a SalSa site!
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How to Make a Salt Dome
• Start with Evaporite
• Bury it deep by Geologic Movement
• When it becomes plastic, expel impurities
• Rise toward surface from density difference
• Shape like a high altitude Helium balloon
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U.S Gulf coast salt domes
Salt dome demographics:
• Several hundred known—some are good source of oil
• Typical ~3-5 km diameters, 5-15 km deep
• ~200 km3 water equiv. in top 3-5 km for many domes
HoustonNew Orleans
Hockley dome/mine
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Hockley Salt Dome
• Active Salt Mine, United Salt Company• About 3 by 4 Km in horizontal, many Km
deep• No Boreholes, but Tunnels and Chambers• Complications from Matching Antennas to
Salt• Change in beam pattern• Measure many distances
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Layout of Hockley Mine
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Measurements
• Compare Friis formula with experimental results
• Ratio of 150 and 300 MHz results
• 750 MHz measurement
• Polarization and Noise
• Ground penetrating radar data
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Measurement of Signal vs Distance
• Friis Formula (no attenuation)
• VR/VT = A/(R x , A = effective area of transmitting and receiving antennae
• At 150 MHz (half wave), A = 0.132
• At 300 MHz (full wave), A = 0.0482
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Latt vs Distance at Two Frequencies
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Frequency Dependence
• For constant tan
• Latt(300MHz)/Latt(150MHz) = 0.5
• Results for Latt from frequency dependence
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Latt from Frequency Dependence
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750 MHz Measurement
• Four commercial UHF phased bowtie array
• Narrow beam made measurements difficult
• Results
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Latt from Frequency of 750 MHz
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Polarization and Noise
• At 150 MHz, test salt for birefringence
• No cross polarization observed within the rejection of antenna
• Observed noise characterized by a <600 K blackbody (not inconsistant with 310K blackbody)
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Ground Penetrating Radar• Masters thesis at Texas A&M
• GPR at 440 MHz, n = 2.45 +-0.05
• Results
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Samples measured around 10GHz
•Rock salt is fragile, so that it is not easy to make small stick samples ( 1mm x 1mm x 10.2mm ). Lime stone (especially Jura lime stone ) is rigid. The small stick samples are obtained using a milling machine.
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in situ measurementsP.Gorham et al
NaCl, Dielectric Materials and Applications (A. R. von Hippel ed.), 1954
tanδ=2×10-4
Rock salt Hockley mine, USA
Rock salt, Halstadt mine, Austria
NaCl synthesizedLime stone, Kamaishi, Japan
Lime stone, Mt. Jura, France Rock salt, Asse mine, Germany
Hippel 25GHz
1GHz cavity 5.5GHz
8.2GHz
11GHz
Nacl powder
Teflon
Dielectric resonator
tan
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L
Combined Measurements
M.Chiba
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Summary of WIPP/Hockley results• Rock salt is perhaps the clearest medium known for EM
propagation– Usable frequency range from few MHz to ~10 GHz– Evaporite beds (WIPP) have problems with impurities, but salt domes appear
to be often purified through geologic processes
• No measureable bi-refringence or depolarization– Allows for possibility of polarization tracking– May be better than ice in this respect
• Several other salt domes known to be as good or better than Hockley– Avery Island (LA), Weeks Island (LA)– Cote Blanche (LA), Grand Saline (TX)– Many others expected to be excellent but as yet unmeasured– Typical salt volume 50-100 cubic km per salt dome– Several hundred known known salt domes in Gulf coast area, probably
thousands throughout the world
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Conclusions
• At least one salt dome may be suitable for SalSa
• A search for a candidate SalSa dome should start
• Preliminary tests should be made to test properties of dome
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Backup Slides
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Properties of materials for UHE Neutrino Detector
MaterialProperties
Air(STP)
Ice(H2O)
Rock salt
(NaCl)
Lime stone
(CaCO3)
Density ρ (g/cm3) 0.0012 0.924 2.22 2.7
Radiation length X0 (cm) 30420 39 10.1 9.0
Refractive index n = 1.000293 1.78 2.43 2.9
Cherenkov angle (deg) 1.387 55.8 65.7 69.8
Cherenkov threshold energy(keV) …. 107 50 33
Rock salt: high density, large refractive index and short radiation length
From M. Chiba
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Salt Measurements at WIPP & Hockley
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Measurements of complex permittivity of rock salts and lime stones
Cavity perturbation methodAbsorption depends on the surface condition of the samples, e.g.
smoothness, stain etc.
9.4GHz TE107 Q=4000 Size: 23x10x155mm3
1GHz TM010Q=10000Size: 230mm x 30mm
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Latt from 440 MHz Radar