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| WEPEB063 | Concept of Radiation Monitoring and Safety Interlock Systems for XFEL/SPring-8 | 2836 |
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The accelerator safety interlock system of XFEL/SPring-8 was designed to fulfill the requirement of matching with the safety interlock system of SPring-8 because both safety systems are planning to be unified in near future to deal with the electron beam injection from XFEL to SPring-8. At XFEL, however, additional requirements for the system also existed; the designed radiation shielding requires when the electrons are not injected into the dump core properly, the beam has to be terminated within 16 msec, which corresponds to 60 Hz operation, to avoid the next bunch coming. An outline of such different design criteria is presented together with the concept of the safety interlock system. The radiation monitoring system, which was also the same as that of SPring-8, was installed by reinforcing the redundancy and response time. Gamma and neutron monitors are set at 14 positions near the assumed loss points in the accessible place of the controlled area. The dose equivalent data are sent to the radiation monitoring systems of XFEL and SPring-8, respectively, and when the measured dose exceeds the preset level, an alarm signal is sent to the safety interlock promptly. |
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| WEPEB068 | Feasibility Tests of the Beam Halo Monitoring System for Protecting Undulator Permanent Magnets against Radiation Damage at XFEL/SPring-8 | 2851 |
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A beam halo region of an electron beam at a linear accelerator might hit the undulator magnets and degrade undulator permanent magnets. An interlock sensor is indispensable to protect the magnets against radiation damage. We have been developing an electron beam halo monitor using diamond detectors for an interlock sensor at the X-ray free electron laser facility at SPring-8 (XFEL/SPring-8). The diamond detectors are operated in photoconductive mode. Pulse-by-pulse measurements are adopted to suppress the background noise efficiently. The feasibility tests of this monitor have been performed at the SPring-8 compact SASE source (SCSS) test accelerator for XFEL/SPring-8, and the results will be summarized. |