The ESSnuSB will produce a high intensity neutrino super beam based on the 3 ms long proton pulses at 14 Hz from the ESS linac. With the use of a conventional normal-conducting van der Meer horn, to collect pions from the neutrino target, these 3 ms pulses will have to be compressed to of the order of 1 microsecond in order to avoid overheating of the magnet current conductors. Since this pulse compression requires costly extensions to the accelerator complex a prototype design of an alternative normal-conducting hadron collector scheme that could be operated in DC mode has been studied. The magnet has been implemented in the simulation software FLUKA and extensive research has been made to analyse and maximise the flux of charged pions inside and downsteam of the magnet. Further simulations have been made to asses the flux of on-target neutrinos from the alternative collector scheme in comparison to the corresponding flux of a van der Meer horn. Simulation results from the comparison show that the alternative magnet greatly improved the neutrino flux of a bare source but not to the extent necessary to replace the magnetic horn. A conclusion is presented on the future possibilities of an optimized design that can improve the neutrino flux.

To study electron emissions and dark currents in the accelerating structures in particle colliders, a test facility with a spectrometer has been constructed at CERN. This spectrometer has been simulated in the C++ toolkit GEANT4 and in this project the simulation has been improved to handle new realistic input data of the emitted electrons. The goal was to find relations between where the electrons are emitted inside the accelerating structure and the energy or position of the particles measured by the spectrometer. The result was that there is a linear relation between the initial position of the electrons and the width in the positions of the particles measured by the spectrometer. It also appears to be a relations between energy the emitted electrons get in the accelerating structure, which is related to the position, and the energy they deposit in the spectrometer. Further studies where the simulations are compared with real measurement data are required to determine whether these relations are true or not, find better reliability in the relations and get a better understanding of the phenomena.