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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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| MOPLT022 |
The Expected Performance of the LHC Injection Protection System
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- V. Kain, O.S. Brüning, L. Ducimetière, B. Goddard, M. Lamont, V. Mertens
CERN, Geneva
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The passive protection devices TDI, TCDD and TCLI are required to prevent damage to the LHC in case of serious injection failures, in particular of the MKI injection kicker. A detailed particle tracking, taking realistic mechanical, positioning, injection, closed orbit and local optical errors into account, has been used to determine the required settings of the absorber elements to guarantee protection against different MKI failure modes. The expected protection level of the combination of TDI with TCLI, with the new TCLI layout, is presented. Conclusions are drawn concerning the expected damage risk level.
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