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| MOPLT006 |
The New Layout of the LHC Cleaning Insertions
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- R.W. Assmann, O. Aberle, O.S. Brüning, S. Chemli, D. Gasser, J.-B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jimenez, V. Kain, E. Métral, G. Peon, S. Ramberger, C. Rathjen, T. Risselada, F. Ruggiero, L. Vos
CERN, Geneva
- D. Kaltchev
TRIUMF, Vancouver
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The improved LHC collimation system required significant changes in the layout and design of the warm insertion IR7. Requirements for collimation, optics, impedance, vacuum, and additional infrastructure are described and the adopted layout is discussed. Various design principles have been explored during the re-design, ranging from a regular 90 degree lattice and special low impedance lattices to an option with additional warm quadrupole units that could have extended the usable space for collimator installations in the insertion. The various constraints for the optics and cleaning design in the LHC cleaning insertions are summarized. Magnet positions and collimators were moved significantly, such that a good cleaning efficiency was maintained while impedance was reduced by a factor of two. Metallic phase 2 collimators allow a better efficiency than originally achievable and additional scrapers were allocated. The required infrastructure was specified, including a powerful cooling system for the collimators.
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| MOPLT010 |
Collimation of Heavy Ion Beams in LHC
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- H.-H. Braun, R.W. Assmann, A. Ferrari, J.-B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jowett
CERN, Geneva
- I.A. Pshenichnov
RAS/INR, Moscow
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The LHC collimation system is designed to cope with requirements of proton beams having 100 times higher beam power than the nominal LHC heavy ion beam. In spite of this, specific problems occur for ion collimation, due to different particle-collimator interaction mechanism for ions and protons. Ions are subject to hadronic fragmentation and electromagnetic dissociation, resulting in a non-negligible flux of secondary particles of small angle divergence and Z/A ratios slightly different from the primary beam. These particles are difficult to intercept by the collimation system and can produce significant heat-load in the superconducting magnets when they hit the magnet vacuum chamber. A computer program has been developed to obtain quantitative estimates of the magnitude and location of the particle losses. Hadronic fragmentation and electromagnetic dissociation of ions in the collimators were considered within the frameworks of abrasion-ablation and RELDIS models, respectively. Trajectories of the secondary particles in the ring magnet lattice and the distribution of intercept points of these trajectories with the vacuum chamber are computed. Results are given for the present collimation system design and potential improvements are discussed.
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| MOPLT005 |
An Improved Collimation System for the LHC
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- R.W. Assmann, O. Aberle, A. Bertarelli, H.-H. Braun, M. Brugger, L. Bruno, O.S. Brüning, S. Calatroni, E. Chiaveri, B. Dehning, A. Ferrari, B. Goddard, E.B. Holzer, J.-B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jimenez, V. Kain, M. Lamont, M. Mayer, E. Métral, R. Perret, S. Redaelli, T. Risselada, G. Robert-Demolaize, S. Roesler, F. Ruggiero, R. Schmidt, D. Schulte, P. Sievers, V. Vlachoudis, L. Vos, G. Vossenberg, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva
- I.L. Ajguirei, I. Baishev, I.L. Kurochkin
IHEP Protvino, Protvino, Moscow Region
- D. Kaltchev
TRIUMF, Vancouver
- H. Tsutsui
SHI, Tokyo
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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.
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| MOPLT018 |
Aperture and Delivery Precision of the LHC Injection System
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- B. Goddard, M. Gyr, J.-B. Jeanneret, V. Kain, M. Lamont, V. Maire, V. Mertens, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva
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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.
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| MOPLT031 |
LHC Abort Gap Filling by Proton Beam
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- E.N. Shaposhnikova, S.D. Fartoukh, J.-B. Jeanneret
CERN, Geneva
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Safe operation of the LHC beam dump relies on the possibility of firing the abort kicker at any moment during beam operation. One of the necessary conditions for this is that the number of particles in the abort gap should be below some critical level defined by quench limits. Various scenarios can lead to particles filling the abort gap. The relevant time scales associated with these scenarios are estimated for top energy where the synchrotron radiation losses are not negligible for uncaptured particle motion. Two cases are considered, both with RF on and RF off. The equilibrium distribution of lost particles in the abort gap defines the requirements for maximum tolerable relative loss rate and as a consequence the minimum acceptable longitudinal lifetime of the proton beam in collision.
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| WEPLT006 |
Expected Performance and Beam-based Optimization of the LHC Collimation System
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- R.W. Assmann, E.B. Holzer, J.-B. Jeanneret, V. Kain, S. Redaelli, G. Robert-Demolaize, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva
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The cleaning efficiency requirements in the LHC are 2-3 orders of magnitude beyond the requirements at other super-conducting circular colliders. The achievable ideal cleaning efficiency in the LHC is presented and the deteriorating effects of various physics processes and imperfections are discussed in detail for the improved LHC collimation system. The longitudinal distribution of proton losses downstream of the betatron cleaning system are evaluated with a realistic aperture model of the LHC. The results from simplified tracking studies are compared to simulations with complete physics and error models. Possibilities for beam-based optimization of collimator settings are described.
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