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| MOPLT009 |
The Design of the New Fast Extraction Channel for LHC
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- J. Borburgh, B. Balhan, E.H.R. Gaxiola, B. Goddard, Y. Kadi, J.A. Uythoven
CERN, Geneva
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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.
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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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| MOPLT017 |
Beam Commissioning of the SPS LSS4 Extraction and the TT40 Transfer Line
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- B. Goddard, P. Collier, M. Lamont, V. Mertens, K. Sigerud, J.A. Uythoven, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva
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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.
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| MOPLT034 |
Possible Causes and Consequences of Serious Failures of the LHC Machine Protection System
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- J.A. Uythoven, R. Filippini, B. Goddard, M. Gyr, V. Kain, R. Schmidt, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva
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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.
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| MOPLT035 |
Beam Induced Heating of the SPS Fast Pulsed Magnets
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- J.A. Uythoven, G. Arduini, T. Bohl, F. Caspers, E.H.R. Gaxiola, T. Kroyer, M. Timmins, L. Vos
CERN, Geneva
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Fast pulsed magnets with ferrite yokes are used in CERN?s SPS accelerator for beam injection, extraction and excitation for tune measurements. The impedance of the ferrite structures can provoke significant beam induced heating, especially for beams with high peak currents as for LHC operation, even beyond the Curie temperature. The expected heating in the different kicker systems for various operational modes is compared with beam measurements. Estimates of the beam induced power have been derived from measured beam spectra. A fast extraction kicker system has recently been equipped with a cooling system. The measured cooling performance is compared with data from laboratory setups and numerical simulations.
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| TUPLT008 |
A Retrofit Technique for Kicker Beam-coupling Impedance Reduction
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- F. Caspers, E.H.R. Gaxiola, T. Kroyer, M. Timmins, J.A. Uythoven
CERN, Geneva
- S.S. Kurennoy
LANL/LANSCE, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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The reduction of the impedance of operational ferrite kicker structures may be desirable in order to avoid rebuilding such a device. Often resistively coated ceramic plates or tubes are installed for this purpose but at the expense of available aperture. Ceramic U-shaped profiles with a resistive coating fitting between the ellipse of the beam and the rectangular kicker aperture have been used to significantly reduce the impedance of the magnet, while having a limited effect on the available physical aperture Details of this method, constraints, measurements and simulation results as well as practical aspects are presented and discussed.
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