Additional shielding in front of M2

This note presents studies on possibilities to improve the shielding in front of M2 in order to reduce occupancy of the hottest areas of the Muon System and to mitigate the dead-time problem. Two places for installing additional shielding have been considered: behind HCAL, in place of the PMTs and their bases for the readout, and inside ECAL, in place of the innermost modules of the calorimeter. Studies on the additional shielding inside ECAL have been done for the complementarity of the research rather than for practical purpose due negative effects on the physics. Various studies have been carried out and different configurations of shielding in terms of dimensions and materials have been tested using MC simulations. Moreover the correlation between hits was studied by analysing angles of the tracks passing through M2.