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| MOPLT014 |
Testing of the LHC Magnets in Cryogenic Conditions: Current Experience and Near Future Outlook
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- V. Chohan, M. Buzio, G. De Rijk, J. Miles, P. Pugnat, V. Remondino, S. Sanfilippo, A.D. Siemko, N. Smirnov, B. Vullierme, L. Walckiers
CERN, Geneva
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For the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN, a necessary and primordial condition prior to its installation is that all the main twin-aperture Dipole and Quadrupole magnets are tested in the 1.9K cryogenic conditions. These tests are not feasible at the manufacturers and hence, are carried out at CERN at a purpose built facility on the site. This presentation will give an overall view of the issues related to the operation of the tests facility. In particular, it will give the goals that need to be met to ensure the magnet integrity and performance and the context & constraints on the test programme. Results accumulated from the tested magnets and the ensuing tests stream-lining will be presented, together with some of the explanations and hard limits. Finally, some improvements planned for efficient operation will be given within the confines of the testing programme as was foreseen and the project goals and deadlines.
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| WEPKF009 |
A Scaling Law for Predicting Snap-back in Superconducting Accelerator Magnets
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- T. Pieloni, L. Bottura, S. Sanfilippo
CERN, Geneva
- G. Ambrosio, P. Bauer
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
- M. Haverkamp
METROLAB, Plan-les-Ouates
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The decay of the sextupole component in the bending dipoles during injection and the subsequent snap-back at particle acceleration are issues of common concern, albeit at different levels of criticality, for all superconducting colliders built (Tevatron, HERA, RHIC) or in construction (LHC) to date. The main difficulty is the correction of the relatively large and fast sextupole change during snap-back. Motivated by the above considerations, we have conducted an extended study of sextupole snap-back on two different magnet families, the Tevatron and the LHC bending dipoles, using the same measurement method. We show in this paper that it is possible to generalise all the results obtained by using a simple, exponential scaling law. Furthermore, we show that for magnets of the same family the parameters of the scaling law correlate linearly. This finding could be exploited during accelerator operation to produce accurate forecast of the snap-back correction based solely on beam-based measurements.
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