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| MOPLT015 |
Reliability Issues of the LHC Beam Dumping System
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- R. Filippini, E. Carlier, B. Goddard, J.A. Uythoven
CERN, Geneva
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The Beam Dumping System of the Large Hadron Collider, presently under construction at CERN, must function with utmost reliability to protect the personnel, minimize the risk of severe damage to the machine and avoid undue impact to the environment. The dumping action must be synchronized with the particle free gap and the field of the extraction and dilution elements must be well adjusted to the beam energy. The measures taken to arrive at a reliable and safe system will be described, like the adoption of fault tolerant design principles and other safety related features as comprehensive monitoring, diagnostics and protection facilities. These issues will be discussed in the general framework of the IEC standard recommendations for safety critical systems. Some examples related to the most critical functions will be included.
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| MOPLT016 |
Upgrade and Tests of the SPS Fast Extraction Kicker System for LHC and CNGS
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- E.H.R. Gaxiola, A. Antoine, P. Burkel, E. Carlier, F. Castronuovo, L. Ducimetière, Y. Sillanoli, M. Timmins, J.A. Uythoven
CERN, Geneva
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A fast extraction kicker system has been installed in the SPS and successfully used in extraction tests in 2003. It will serve to send beam to the anticlockwise LHC ring and the CNGS neutrino facility. The magnets and pulse generators have been recuperated from an earlier installation and upgraded to fit the present application. Hardware improvements include diode stacks as replacement of the previous dump thyratron switches, a cooling system of the magnets, sensors for its ferrite temperatures and magnetic field quality assessment. In preparation of the future use for 450 GeV/c transfer to LHC and double batch extraction at 400 GeV/c for CNGS the tests comprised extractions of single bunches, twelve bunches in a single extraction and single bunches in a double extraction. The simulated and measured kick characteristics of the upgraded system are presented, along with results from uniformity calculations of the magnetic field after the modifications to accommodate the cooling circuitry. Further improvements will be discussed which are intended to make the system comply with the specifications for CNGS.
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