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| MOPLT009 | The Design of the New Fast Extraction Channel for LHC | 548 |
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| The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project requires the modification of the existing extraction channel in the long straight section 6 of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The new extraction will be used to transfer protons at 450 Gev/c as well as ions via the 2.8 km long transfer line TI 2 to the clockwise ring of the LHC. As the resonant extraction to the present SPS west area will be stopped after 2004, the electrostatic septa will be replaced by new fast extraction kicker magnets. The girder for the existing DC septa will be modified to accommodate a new septum protection element. Other modifications concern the replacement of a machine quadrupole, a new scheme for the extraction bumpers, new instrumentation and interlocks. The requirements and the design of the new extraction channel will be described as well as the modifications which will mainly be carried out in the long SPS shutdown 2005. | ||
| MOPLT012 | Collimation in the Transfer Lines to the LHC | 554 |
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| The intensities foreseen for injection into the LHC are over an order of magnitude above the expected damage levels. The TI 2 and TI 8 transfer lines between the SPS and LHC are each about 2.5 km long and comprise many magnet families. Despite planned power supply surveillance and interlocks, failure modes exist which could result in uncontrolled beam loss and serious transfer line or LHC equipment damage. We describe the collimation system in the transfer lines that has been designed to provide passive protection against damage at injection. Results of simulations to develop a conceptual design are presented. The optical and physical installation constraints are described, and the resulting element locations and expected system performance presented, in terms of the phase space coverage, local element temperature rises and the characteristics of the beam transmitted into the LHC. | ||
| MOPLT015 | Reliability Issues of the LHC Beam Dumping System | 563 |
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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. | ||
| MOPLT005 | An Improved Collimation System for the LHC | 536 |
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| The LHC design parameters extend the maximum stored beam energy 2-3 orders of magnitude beyond present experience. The handling of the high-intensity LHC beams in a super-conducting environment requires a high-robustness collimation system with unprecedented cleaning efficiency. For gap closures down to 2mm no beam instabilities may be induced from the collimator impedance. A difficult trade-off between collimator robustness, cleaning efficiency and collimator impedance is encountered. The conflicting LHC requirements are resolved with a phased approach, relying on low Z collimators for maximum robustness and hybrid metallic collimators for maximum performance. Efficiency is further enhanced with an additional cleaning close to the insertion triplets. The machine layouts have been adapted to the new requirements. The LHC collimation hardware is presently under design and has entered into the prototyping and early testing phase. Plans for collimator tests with beam are presented. | ||
| MOPLT017 | Beam Commissioning of the SPS LSS4 Extraction and the TT40 Transfer Line | 569 |
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| The new fast extraction system in LSS4 of the SPS and the transfer line TT40 were installed between 2000 and 2003, and commissioned with beam in late 2003. The extraction system and transfer line will serve both the anti-clockwise ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the long baseline neutrino (CNGS) facility. The layout and functionality of the main elements are briefly explained, including the various hardware subsystems and the controls system. The safety procedures, test objectives and results of the system commissioning with beam are described, together with the test methodology. Conclusions are drawn concerning the performance of the system elements, agreement between predicted and expected activation levels and test efficiency and procedures. The test results are also briefly discussed in the context of future LHC beam commissioning activities. | ||
| MOPLT018 | Aperture and Delivery Precision of the LHC Injection System | 572 |
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| The main LHC injection elements in interaction regions 2 and 8 comprise the injection septa (MSI), the injection kicker (MKI), together with three families of passive protection devices (TDI, TCDD and TCLI). The apertures of the injection septa for the injected and two circulating beams are detailed with a new enlarged vacuum chamber and final septum alignment. The circulating beam aperture of the TDI is detailed with a new TDI support design and modified vacuum tank alignment. A modified TCDD shape is also presented and the implications for the aperture and protection level discussed. The various errors in the SPS, the transfer lines and the injection system, which contribute to injection errors, are analysed, and the expected performance of the system is derived, in terms of the expected delivery precision of the injected beam. | ||
| MOPLT021 | Attenuation and Emittance Growth of 450 GeV and 7 TeV Proton Beams in Low-Z Absorber Elements | 581 |
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| The intensity of the LHC beams will be several orders of magnitude above the damage thresholds for equipment, at 7 TeV, but also already at injection energy of 450 GeV. Passive protection of the equipment against failures during beam transfer, injection and dumping of the beam with absorbers and collimators is foreseen to ensure safe operation. Since these protection devices must be robust in case of beam impact, low-Z materials such as graphite are favored. The reduction of the energy density of the primary beam by the absorber is determined by the attenuation of the beam due to nuclear collisions and the emittance growth of the surviving protons due to scattering processes. Absorbers with low density materials tend to be several meters long to ensure sufficient reduction of the transverse energy density of the impacting beam. The physics principles leading to attenuation and emittance growth for a hadron beam traversing matter are summarised, and FLUKA simulation results for 450 GeV and 7TeV proton beams on low-Z absorbers are compared with theoretical predictions. Design criteria for the LHC absorbers can be derived from these results. As an example, for the transfer line from SPS to LHC a short, low-Z absorber has been proposed to protect the LHC injection elements. | ||
| MOPLT022 | The Expected Performance of the LHC Injection Protection System | 584 |
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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. | ||
| MOPLT025 | Status and Plans for the SPS to LHC Beam Transfer Lines TI 2 and TI 8 | 593 |
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| Beam transfer from the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be done through the two transfer lines TI 2 and TI 8, presently under construction, with a combined length of about 5.6 km. The final layout, optics design and correction scheme for these lines will be presented. The requirement of simultaneously matching their geometry and optics with that of the LHC will be treated, including the methodology for alignment of the elements along the line and a proposed solution in the final matching section. After the commissioning of the short transfer line TT40 just upstream of TI 8 in 2003, beam tests of the whole of TI 8 are scheduled for autumn 2004, with the aim to validate many of the new features and mechanisms involved in the future control and operation of these lines. The status of the installation will be described, comprising the progress with infrastructure, services and line elements. An outlook will be given for the work remaining until 2007. | ||
| MOPLT034 | Possible Causes and Consequences of Serious Failures of the LHC Machine Protection System | 620 |
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| The LHC machine protection systems, including the beam dumping system, are designed to ensure that failures leading to serious damage to the LHC during its lifetime are extremely unlikely. These kind of failures have to date been considered as being ?beyond the design case?, for instance requiring a combination of equipment failure and surveillance failure. However, they need to be evaluated to determine the required safety levels of the protection systems. A second objective is to understand if measures can and should be taken to further reduce the probability of such failures, or to minimise their impact. This paper considers various serious failure modes of the different machine protection systems. The probable consequences and possible ameliorating measures of the worst-case scenarios are discussed. The particular case of having a stored beam with an unavailable beam dumping system is mentioned, together with possible actions to be taken in such an event. | ||
| MOPLT038 | Conceptual Design of the LHC Beam Dumping Protection Elements TCDS and TCDQ | 629 |
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| The Beam Dumping System for the Large Hadron Collider, presently under construction at CERN, consists, per ring, of a set of horizontally deflecting extraction kicker magnets, vertically deflecting steel septa, dilution kickers and finally, a couple of hundred metres further downstream, an absorber block. A fixed diluter (TCDS) will protect the septa in the event of a beam dump that is not synchronised with the particle free gap or a spontaneous firing of the extraction kickers which will cause the beam to sweep over the septum. A mobile diluter block (TCDQ) will protect the superconducting quadrupole immediate downstream of the extraction as well as the arc at injection energy and the triplet aperture at top energy from bunches with small impact parameters. The conceptual design of the protection elements will be described, together with the status of the mechanical engineering. | ||
| MOPLT042 | Interaction of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Beam with Solid Metallic Targets | 641 |
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The LHC will operate at 7 TeV with a luminosity of 1034 cm-2s-1. This requires two beams, each with 2808 bunches. The nominal intensity per bunch is 1.1 1011 protons. The energy stored in each beam of 350 MJ could heat and melt 500 kg of copper. Protection of machine equipment in the presence of such powerful beams is essential. In this paper the mechanisms causing equipment damage in case of a failure of the machine protection system are discussed. An energetic heavy ion beam induces strong radial hydrodynamic motion in the target that drastically reduces the density in the beam heated region [*], leading to a much longer range for particles in the material. For the interaction of the LHC proton beams with a target a similar effect is expected. We carried out two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the heating of a solid copper block with a face area of 2cm x 2cm irradiated by the LHC beam with nominal parameters. We estimate that after an impact of about 100 bunches the beam heated region has expanded drastically. The density in the inner 0.5 mm decreases by about a factor of 10. The temperature in this region is about 10 eV and the pressure about 15 GPa. The material in the heated region is in plasma state while the rest of the target is in a liquid state. The bulk of the following beam will not be absorbed and continue to tunnel further and further into the target. The results allow estimating the length of a sacrificial absorber, if such device should be installed for an LHC upgrade. A very interesting "spinoff" from this work would be the study of high-energy-density states of matter induced by the LHC beam, because a specific energy deposition of 200 kJ/g is achieved after 2.5 micros.
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| WEPLT043 | Detecting Failures in Electrical Circuits Leading to Very Fast Beam Losses in the LHC | 1927 |
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| Depending on the beam optics, failures in the magnet powering at locations with large beta functions could lead to very fast beam losses at the collimators, possibly within less than 10 turns. Beam loss monitors would normally detect such losses and trigger a beam dump. However, the available time for detection with beam loss monitors before reaching the damage level of a collimator might not be sufficient, in particular for beams with few particles in the tails. This has always been of concern and becomes even more relevant since very fast losses have been observed recently at HERA. In this paper, we present particle tracking studies for the LHC to identify failures on critical magnets. We propose a fast detection of such failures in the electrical circuit, either with highly precise hall probes for current measurement or measurements of the induced inductive voltage during the current decay. In combination with a small and simple interlock electronics such detection system can provide reliable and fast interlock signals for critical magnets in the LHC main ring but could also be used to monitor injection and extraction magnets. Depending on the properties of the electrical circuit an increase of the natural time constant of the current decay using a serial superconducting magnet is also considered. |