Thermal Analysis of the ALICE Detector for the LHC

In the same fashion as for the other LHC detectors, ALICE requires stringent conditions of temperature stability in time and space and adequate absolute values, which vary for each sub-detector. For the design of the cooling and ventilation systems inside the detector, three different studies have been undertaken. The first investigates the temperature distribution and hot spots in the volume enclosed by the L3 magnet for different ventilation configurations. The second study deals with the cooling of the muon chambers inside the dipole magnet and, in particular, analyses the possibility of air-cooling pairs of muon chambers to remove the residual heat flux by forced convection. The third study examines the contribution of the surroundings to the temperature gradients in the drift gas (Ne/CO2) of the TPC sub-detector. The different computational results will be shown and some design proposals presented.