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| MOPKF084 | Beam Instabilities in Lepton Ring of eRHIC | laser, wiggler, gun, undulator | 515 | ||
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The eRHIC is a high luminosity lepton-hadron collider planned to be built in Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, New York, USA. The lepton machine of eRHIC is a completely newly designed machine complex to provide highly polarized lepton beams at up to 10 GeV energy for the high luminosity lepton-hadron collisions. This paper decribes major issues of collective effects in this lepton storage ring. Besides conventional impedance-driven instabilities, the electron cloud effects in positron operation and fast beam-ion effects in electron operation are of major conserns. The analytical and numerical estimats for major collective effects are made with different machine operation conditions.
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| MOPKF085 | Design Optimizations of X-ray FEL Facility at MIT | wiggler, undulator, cathode, emittance | 518 | ||
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MIT is exploring the construction of a linac-based x-ray laser user facility on the campus of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. The facility under consideration would span the wavelength range from 100 to 0.3 nm in the fundamental, move into the hard X-ray region in the third harmonic, and preserve the possibility of an upgrade to even shorter wavelengths. The accelerator configuration would include a high brightness electron gun, a superconducting electron linac and multiple undulators and beam lines to support a growing user community. This paper will present the recent progress on the start-to-end simulations including the parameter optimizations and sensativity analysis.
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| MOPKF086 | Modifications of the LCLS Photoinjector Beamline | wiggler, undulator, cathode, damping | 521 | ||
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The LCLS Photoinjector beamline is now in the Design and Engineering stage. The fabrication and installation of this beamline is scheduled for the summer 2006. The Photoinjector will deliver 10 ps long electron bunches of 1nC with a normalized transverse emittance of less than 1 mm.mrad for 80% of the slices constituting the core of the bunch at 135 MeV. In this paper, we describe some modifications of the beamline: new exit energy, additional focusing, insertion of a laser heater. We also describe an alternate tuning which is based on a laser pulse of 20ps. The advantages and drawbacks of this long pulse tuning are reviewed. A comparison of sensitivity to field errors and misalignment between the long pulse tuning and the nominal tuning is given.
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| MOPKF087 | The Cebaf Energy Recovery Experiment: Update and Future Plans | wiggler, undulator, cathode, damping | 524 | ||
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A successful GeV scale energy recovery demonstration with a high ratio of peak-to-injection energies (50:1) was carried out on the CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility) recirculating superconducting linear accelerator in the spring 2003. To gain a quantitative understanding of the beam behavior through the machine, data was taken to characterize the 6D phase space during the CEBAF-ER (CEBAF with Energy Recovery) experimental run. The transverse emittance and energy spread of the accelerating and energy recovered beams were measured in several locations to ascertain the beam quality preservation during energy recovery. Measurements also included the RF system's response to the energy recovery process and transverse beam profile of the energy recovered beam. One of the salient conclusions from the experiment is that the energy recovery process does not contribute significantly to the emittance degradation. The current status of the data analysis will be presented as well as plans for a GeV scale energy recovery experimental run with current doubling.
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| MOPLT001 | Acceleration of Electrons by Spatially Modulated Laser Wave | acceleration, wiggler, undulator, cathode | 527 | ||
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We study the acceleration of electrons in a system of linearly polarized laser wave, propagating at small angles to the direction of electron motion. The parameters of electron bunch and laser wave are chosen so, that during driving electrons in a band of a wave, the electric field of a wave has not changed the direction. The requirements of deriving of maximum rate of acceleration are found depending on parameters of electronic bunch and laser wave. It is shown, that the dependence of growth of electrons energy from number of light bands has nonlinear character. The influence of light diffraction on process of acceleration is considered. It is shown, that the discussed scheme of acceleration allows a possibility of deriving of high acceleration rate owing to existence of modern powerful lasers.
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| MOPLT003 | Upgrading the LNLS Control System from a Proprietary to a Commercial Communications Environment | acceleration, wiggler, undulator, cathode | 530 | ||
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The LNLS Control System was built over a proprietary technology, due to governmental policy of information technology in the mid 80's. This made interfacing to commercial systems difficult, limited the technology transfer to the private sector, required a staff with specific knowledge and reduced the possibility of new implementations on the system. Nowadays, the cost to move all of our hardware to a commercial one is out of our budget. This paper describes a proposal, the viability study and first results to move only the communication interfaces to a commercial environment, keeping most of our hardware unchanged and opening the way to gradually move the system to widely accepted standards, when and if necessary. This solution allows a smooth implementation without long periods of machine shutdown and keeps the possibility to operate the machine concurrently between old and new communication interfaces.
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| MOPLT004 | Control of the LHC 400 MHz RF System (ACS) | acceleration, wiggler, undulator, cathode | 533 | ||
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The LHC ACS RF system is composed of 16 superconducting cavities, eight per ring. Each ring has two cryomodules, each containing four cavities. Each cavity is powered by a 300 kW klystron. The klystrons are grouped in fours, the klystrons in each group sharing a common 58 kV power converter and HV equipment bunker. The ACS RF control system is based on modern industrial programmable controllers (PLCs). A new fast interlock and alarm system with inbuilt diagnostics has been developed. Extensive use of the FIPIO Fieldbus drastically decreases the cabling complexity and brings improved signal quality, increased reliability and easier maintenance. Features of the implementation, such as system layout, communication and the high level software interface are described. Operational facilities such as the automatic switch on procedure are described, as well as the necessary specialist tools and interfaces. A complete RF chain,including high voltage, cryomodule and klystron is presently being assembled in order to check, as far as possible, all aspects of RF system operation before LHC installation. The experience gained so far in this test chain with the new control system is presented
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| MOPLT005 | An Improved Collimation System for the LHC | acceleration, wiggler, undulator, cathode | 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.
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| MOPLT006 | The New Layout of the LHC Cleaning Insertions | acceleration, wiggler, undulator, cathode | 539 | ||
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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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| MOPLT007 | Base Line Design for a Beta-beam Neutrino Facility | wiggler, acceleration, undulator, cathode | 542 | ||
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The term beta-beam has been coined for the production of pure beams of electron neutrinos or their antiparticles through the decay of radioactive ions circulating in a storage ring. The neutrino source itself consists of a high energy storage ring (gamma ~150), with long straight sections in line with the experiment(s). The radioactive ions (6He and 18Ne) will be produced in an ISOL type target system. Due to the short life times of around 1s at rest, the beam needs to be accelerated as quickly as possible. For this a staged system of accelerators is proposed. The chain starts with a linac followed by a rapid cycling synchrotron for acceleration up to ~300 MeV/u. For further acceleration the existing PS and SPS machines are used. Finally, after acceleration to SPS top energy, the ions are transferred to the decay ring where they are merged with the already circulating bunch through a longitudinal stacking procedure. The base line design of the beta beam facility will be presented and the major design problems encountered as well possible solutions will be discussed.
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| MOPLT008 | The Mechanical Design for the LHC Collimators | wiggler, acceleration, undulator, cathode | 545 | ||
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The design of the LHC collimators must comply with the very demanding specifications entailed by the highly energetic beam handled in the LHC: these requirements impose a temperature on the collimating jaws not exceeding 50°C in steady operations and an unparalleled overall geometrical stability of 25micro-m on a 1200 mm span. At the same time, the design phase must meet the challenging deadlines required by the general time schedule. To respond to these tough and sometimes conflicting constraints, the chosen design appeals to a mixture of traditional and innovative technologies, largely drawing from LEP collimator experience. The specifications impose a low-Z material for the collimator jaws, directing the design towards graphite or such novel materials as 3-d Carbon/Carbon composites. An accurate mechanical design has allowed to considerably reduce mechanical play and optimize geometrical stability. Finally, all mechanical studies were supported by in-depth thermo-mechanical analysis concerning temperature distribution, mechanical strength and cooling efficiency.
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| MOPLT009 | The Design of the New Fast Extraction Channel for LHC | extraction, wiggler, acceleration, undulator | 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.
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| MOPLT010 | Collimation of Heavy Ion Beams in LHC | extraction, wiggler, collimation, acceleration | 551 | ||
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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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| MOPLT012 | Collimation in the Transfer Lines to the LHC | extraction, wiggler, acceleration, undulator | 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.
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| MOPLT013 | Fatigue Testing of Materials by UV Pulsed Laser Irradiation | extraction, wiggler, acceleration, undulator | 557 | ||
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The energy dissipated by the RF currents in the cavities of high-power pulsed linacs induces cycles of the surface temperature. In the case of the CLIC main linac the expected amplitude of the thermal cycles is about hundred degrees, for a total number of pulses reaching 10e11. The differential thermal expansion due to the temperature gradient in the material creates a cyclic stress that can result in surface break-up by fatigue. The materials for cavity fabrication must therefore be selected in order to withstand such constraints whilst maintaining an acceptable surface state. The fatigue behaviour of Cu and CuZr alloy has been tested by inducing larger surface peak temperatures, thus reducing the number of cycles to failure, irradiating the surface with 50 ns pulses of UV light (308 nm) from an excimer laser. Surface break-up is observed after different number of laser shots as a function of the peak temperature. CuZr appears to withstand a much larger number of cycles than Cu, for equal peak temperature. The characterization of the surface states and possible means of extrapolating the measured behaviour to the expected number of pulses of CLIC are discussed in detail.
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| MOPLT014 | Testing of the LHC Magnets in Cryogenic Conditions: Current Experience and Near Future Outlook | extraction, wiggler, acceleration, undulator | 560 | ||
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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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| MOPLT015 | Reliability Issues of the LHC Beam Dumping System | wiggler, acceleration, undulator, cathode | 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.
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| MOPLT016 | Upgrade and Tests of the SPS Fast Extraction Kicker System for LHC and CNGS | extraction, wiggler, acceleration, undulator | 566 | ||
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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 | wiggler, acceleration, undulator, cathode | 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.
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| MOPLT018 | Aperture and Delivery Precision of the LHC Injection System | injection, wiggler, acceleration, undulator | 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.
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| MOPLT019 | Experience Gained in the SPS for the Future LHC Abort Gap Cleaning | wiggler, acceleration, undulator, cathode | 575 | ||
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Abort gap cleaning using a transverse damper (feedback) has been previously shown in the RHIC accelerator. We report on experimental results in the SPS, where the transverse damper was used to excite transverse oscillations on part of an LHC test beam, and by the induced losses, creating a practically particle free zone. It is proposed to use the same principle for abort gap cleaning in the LHC. For the LHC abort gap cleaning may be required at injection energy, during the ramp and at top energy. It is shown how the transverse excitation can be optimized taking into account the actual bandwidth of the damper systems and the possibility to fully modulate their input signal to match the beam batatron tune distribution. The cleaning efficiency and speed is estimated considering the porcesses involved, the cleaning (with damper) and the filling of the abort gap.
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| MOPLT020 | Limits to the Performance of the LHC with Ion Beams | wiggler, acceleration, undulator, cathode | 578 | ||
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The performance of the LHC as a heavy-ion collider will be limited by a diverse range of phenomena that are often qualitatively different from those limiting the performance with protons. We summarise the latest understanding and results concerning the consequences of nuclear electromagnetic processes in lead ion collisions, the interactions of ions with the residual gas and the effects of lost ions on the beam environment and vacuum. Besides these limitations on beam intensity, lifetime and luminosity, performance will be governed by the evolution of the beam emittances under the influences of synchrotron radiation damping, intra-beam scattering, RF noise and multiple scattering on residual gas. These effects constrain beam parameters in the LHC ring throughout the operational cycle with lead ions.
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| MOPLT021 | Attenuation and Emittance Growth of 450 GeV and 7 TeV Proton Beams in Low-Z Absorber Elements | wiggler, acceleration, injection, undulator | 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.
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| MOPLT022 | The Expected Performance of the LHC Injection Protection System | wiggler, acceleration, injection, undulator | 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.
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| MOPLT023 | Electron Model of an FFAG Muon Accelerator | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 587 | ||
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Parameters are derived for the lattice and RF system of electron models of a non-scaling FFAG ring for accelerating muons. The models accelerate electrons from about 10 to about 20 MeV, and have circumferences between 10 and 17 m. Magnet types and dimensions, spacings, half apertures, about 12~mm by 20~mm,and number of cells are presented. The magnetic components are compared to existing magnets. The tune variation with momentum covers several integers, similar to that in a full machine, and allows the study of resonance crossing. The consequences of misaligned magnets are studied by simulation. The lattices are designed such that transition is at about 15 MeV. The variation of orbit length with momentum is less than 36~mm, and allows the study of acceleration outside a bucket. A 100~mm straight section, in each of the cells, is adequately long for an RF cavity operating at 3 GHz. Hamiltonian dynamics in longitudinal phase space close to transition is used to calculate the accelerating voltage needed. Acceleration is studied by simulation. Practical RF system design issues, e.g. RF power, and beam loading are estimated.
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| MOPLT024 | Flexibility, Tolerances, and Beam-Based Tuning of the CLIC Damping Ring | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 590 | ||
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The present design of the CLIC damping ring can easily accommodate anticipated CLIC parameter changes. Realistic misalignments of magnets and monitors increase the equilibrium emittance. In simulations we study both the sensitivity to magnet displacements and the emittance recovery achieved by orbit correction, dispersion-free steering and coupling compensation.
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| MOPLT025 | Status and Plans for the SPS to LHC Beam Transfer Lines TI 2 and TI 8 | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 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.
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| MOPLT026 | Equipment Manufacturing and Test Data Tracking for the LHC | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 596 | ||
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The MTF system was developed at CERN to capture the design, manufacturing and test data of equipment built for LHC. Today, more than 80.000 descriptions of LHC equipment are managed using the MTF. The system handles both production data and non-conformance issues. The acquisition of the equipment data is both an organisational and a technical challenge. On the organisational side many different aspects of production and management have to be taken into account. The LHC equipment suppliers, wherever their production facilities are located, whatever their computer skills or rates of production are, need a user friendly environment to provide the data with a very limited effort on the shop floor. For expensive equipment such as the LHC dipoles a reliable and robust non-conformance methodology must be put in place, the MTF provides the required information technology support tools. The EDMS Service has developed methods, training processes and tools to cope with an extensive use of the system, a use that will grow during the next years until the LHC is installed. This paper presents the experience acquired and the solutions put in place.
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| MOPLT027 | Cold Beam Vacuum Interconnects for the LHC Insertion Regions | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 599 | ||
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The LHC machine is composed of arcs and insertion regions where superconducting magnets, working at temperatures of 1.9 K and 4.5 K, have flexibly interconnected beam vacuum chambers. These interconnects must respect strict requirements in terms of impedance, aperture, space optimization and reliability. A complete interconnect design was first developed for the arc regions, and from which a total of 20 variants have been created according to the different functional requirements of each pair of cryostats along the machine. All design features and manufacture processes were validated through extensive testing. Manufacture and assembly cost was minimised by using a modular interconnect design, with common components shared among different design variants. A detailed quality assurance structure was implemented in order to achieve the high level of reliability required. This paper presents the layout of cold beam vacuum interconnects along with details of development and testing performed to validate design and integration.
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| MOPLT028 | In-Situ Vibration Measurements of the CTF2 Quadrupoles | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 602 | ||
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The Compact LInear Collider (CLIC), presently under study at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), aims at colliding high-energy ‘‘nanobeams'' at a luminosity of 1035 cm-2s-1. Vibrations of the lattice elements, if not properly corrected, can result in a loss in performance by creating both unacceptable emittance growth in the linear accelerator and relative beam-beam offsets at the interaction point. Of particular concern are the vibrations induced by the accelerator environment. For example, the circulating water used to cool the lattice quadrupoles will increase magnet vibration levels. In the framework of the CLIC stability study, in-situ measurements of quadrupole vibrations have been performed at the CLIC Test Facility 2 (CTF2) with all accelerator equipment switched on. Since the CTF2 quadrupoles and their alignment support structures are realistic prototypes of those to be used in the CLIC linac, the measurements provide a realistic estimate of the CLIC magnet vibrations in a realistic accelerator working environment.
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| MOPLT029 | All Digital IQ Servo-system for CERN Linacs | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 605 | ||
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A VME based control system has been developed and built at CERN for the servo loops regulating the field in linac accelerating structures. It is an all-digital system built on a single VME card, providing digital detection, processing, and modulation. It is foreseen to be used, in different versions, for the needs of both present and future CERN hadron linacs. The first application will be in the energy ramping RF chain of the CERN Heavy Ion Linac (linac 3). In addition to regulating the cavity field, the system incorporates the measurement and control of the cavity resonance as well as an imbedded loop stabilizing the gain and the phase of the final amplifier operating near saturation. The design principle and the experimental results are described.
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| MOPLT030 | Performance Limits and IR Design of a Possible LHC Luminosity Upgrade Based on Nb-Ti SC Magnet Technology | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 608 | ||
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We investigate the maximum LHC performance for a possible IR design based on classical Nb-Ti insertion magnets. We then extend our analysis to a ternary Nb-based ductile alloy such as Nb-Ti-Ta, a less developed but relatively cheap super-conducting material which would allow us to gain about 1 T of peak field on the coils, and discuss the corresponding luminosity reach for a possible LHC upgrade compared to that based on Nb3Sn magnet technology.
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| MOPLT031 | LHC Abort Gap Filling by Proton Beam | wiggler, injection, undulator, cathode | 611 | ||
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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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| MOPLT032 | Breakdown Resistance of Refractory Metals Compared to Copper | wiggler, injection, undulator, linac | 614 | ||
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The behaviour of Mo, W and Cu with respect to electrical breakdown in ultra high vacuum has been investigated by means of a capacitor discharge method. The maximum stable electric field and the field enhancement factor, beta, have been measured between electrodes of the same material in a sphere/plane geometry for anode and cathode, respectively. The maximum stable field increases as a function of the number of breakdown events for W and Mo. In contrast, no systematic increase is observed for Cu. The highest values obtained are typically 500 MV/m for W, 350 MV/m for Mo and only 180 MV/m for Cu. This conditioning, found for the refractory metals, corresponds to a simultaneous decrease of beta and is therefore related to the field emission properties of the surface and their modification upon sparking. Accordingly, high beta values and no applicable field increase occur for Cu even after repeated breakdown. The results are in agreement with rf breakdown experiments [*] performed on prototype 30 GHz accelerating structures for the CLIC accelerator.
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* W. Wuensch, C. Achard, S. Döbert, H. H. Braun, I. Syratchev, M. Taborelli, I. Wilson, "A Demonstration of High Gradient Acceleration", CERN-AB-2003-048-RF; CLIC-Note-569, Proc. PAC2003. |
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| MOPLT033 | Experimental Studies of Controlled Longitudinal Emittance Blow-up in the SPS as LHC Injector and LHC Test-Bed | wiggler, injection, undulator, linac | 617 | ||
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The longitudinal emittance of the LHC beam must be increased in a controlled way both in the SPS and the LHC itself. In the first case a small increase is sufficient to help prevent coupled bunch instabilities but in the second a factor three is required to also reduce intra-beam scattering effects. This has been achieved in the SPS by exciting the beam at the synchrotron frequency through the phase loop of the main RF system using bandwidth-limited noise, a method that is particularly suitable for the LHC which will have only one RF system. We describe the tests that have been done in the SPS both for low and high intensity beams, the hardware used and the influence of parameters such as time of excitation, bandwidth, frequency and amplitude on the resulting blow-up. After taking into account intensity effects it was possible to achieve a controlled emittance increase by a factor of about 2.5 without particle loss or the creation of visible tails in the distribution.
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| MOPLT034 | Possible Causes and Consequences of Serious Failures of the LHC Machine Protection System | wiggler, injection, undulator, linac | 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.
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| MOPLT035 | Beam Induced Heating of the SPS Fast Pulsed Magnets | wiggler, undulator, linac, dumping | 623 | ||
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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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| MOPLT037 | Simulation of Transient Beam-feedback Interaction with Application to the Extraction of the CNGS Beam from the SPS | wiggler, feedback, undulator, linac | 626 | ||
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For actual and future high energy proton accelerators, such as the LHC, transverse feedback systems play an essential role in supplying the physics experiments with high intensity beams at low emittances. We developed a simulation model to study the interaction between beam and transverse feedback system in detail, bunch-by-bunch and turn-by-turn, considering the real technical implementation of the latter. A numerical model is used as the nonlinear behavior (saturation) and limited bandwidth of the feedback system, as well as the transient nature at injection and extraction, complicates the analysis. The model is applied to the practical case of the CNGS beam in the SPS accelerator. This beam will be ejected from the SPS in two batches causing residual oscillations by kicker ripples on the second batch. This second batch continues to circulate for some 1000 turns after the first batch has been extracted and oscillations are planned to be damped by the feedback system. It is shown how the model can be extended to the case of transients at injection (LHC), and to include coupled bunch instability effects.
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| MOPLT038 | Conceptual Design of the LHC Beam Dumping Protection Elements TCDS and TCDQ | wiggler, feedback, extraction, undulator | 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.
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| MOPLT039 | QCD Explorer Based on LHC and CLIC-1 | wiggler, feedback, extraction, undulator | 632 | ||
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Colliding 7-TeV LHC super-bunches with 75-GeV CLIC bunch trains can provide electron-proton collisions at very high centre-of-mass energies, opening up a new window into QCD. At the same time, this QCD explorer would employ several key components required for both an LHC upgrade and CLIC. We here present a possible parameter set of such a machine, study the consequences of the collision for both beams, and estimate the attainable luminosity.
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| MOPLT040 | Test Results of Superconducting Cavities Produced and Prepared Completely in Industry | wiggler, feedback, extraction, undulator | 635 | ||
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Superconducting cavities for a variety of recent projects are produced and prepared for operation in industry. We report on test results of those cavities produced and prepared at ACCEL. The preparation of the cavities includes chemical treatment (BCP), rinsing with high pressure water and assembly in a clean room. The following cavity types were treated: 400 MHz single cell cavities for LHC, 500 MHz single cell cavities of the Cornell CESR design for our superconducting accelerating modules, 1300 MHz TESLA type cavities, 176 MHz and 160 MHz halfwave resonators and a 352 MHz CH-mode cavity for ion accelaration.
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| MOPLT041 | Production of Superconducting Accelerator Modules for High Current Electron Storage Rings | wiggler, feedback, extraction, undulator | 638 | ||
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For Diamond Light Source, ACCEL was awarded to produce three more superconducting 500 MHz accelerator modules of the Cornell CESR design. With the already 6 modules produced for Cornell, NSRRC and CLS, this module can now be considered as a kind of standard product. In this paper we describe the basic parameters and guaranteed values of this module and will also report on the performance of delivered modules.
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| MOPLT042 | Interaction of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Beam with Solid Metallic Targets | target, wiggler, feedback, extraction | 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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| MOPLT044 | Longitudinal Positron Polarisation in HERA-II | target, wiggler, feedback, extraction | 644 | ||
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Following the installation of two more pairs of spin rotators in the course of the HERA Luminosity Upgrade, longitudinal positron spin polarisation has now been generated simultaneously at all three positron(electron) interaction points in HERA at the routine energy of 27.5 GeV. The maximum attained so far is 54 percent. The theoretical maximum for this configuration and in the presence of realistic errors is 57.0 percent. This is the first time in the history of high energy electron storage ring physics that the naturally occurring vertical polarisation has been, with the aid of spin rotators, converted to longitudinal polarisation at three interaction points simultaneously. We describe the measures needed to attain polarisation in light of the HERA Upgrade and the resulting recent performance.
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| MOPLT144 | Design for a 1036 Super-B-factory at PEP-II | acceleration, quadrupole, beamloading, undulator | 878 | ||
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Design studies are underway to arrive at a complete parameter set for a very high luminosity e+e- Super B-Factory (SBF) in the luminosity range approaching 1036/cm2/s. The design is based on a collider in the PEP-II tunnel but with an upgraded RF system (higher frequency), magnets, vacuum system, and interaction region. The accelerator physics issues associated with this design are reviewed as well as the site and power constraints. Near term future studies will be discussed.
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