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| MOPEC009 | LHC Abort Gap Monitoring and Cleaning | 474 |
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Unbunched beam is a potentially serious issue in the LHC as it may quench the superconducting magnets during a beam abort. Unbunched particles, either not captured by the RF system at injection or leaking out of the RF bucket, will be removed by using the existing damper kickers to excite resonantly the particles in the abort gap. Following beam simulations, a strategy for cleaning the abort gap at different energies was proposed. The plans for the commissioning of the beam abort gap cleaning are described, and the first results from the beam commissioning are presented. |
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| MOPE055 | Design for a Longitudinal Density Monitor for the LHC | 1098 |
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Synchrotron radiation is currently used on LHC for beam imaging and for monitoring the proton population in the 3 microsecond abort gap. In addition to these existing detectors, a study has been initiated to provide longitudinal density profiles of the LHC beams with a high dynamic range and a 50ps time resolution. This would allow for the precise measurement both of the bunch shape and the number of particles in the bunch tail or drifting into ghost bunches. A solution is proposed based on counting synchrotron light photons with two fast avalanche photo‐diodes (APD) operated in Geiger mode. One is free‐running but heavily attenuated and can be used to measure the core of the bunch. The other is much more sensitive, for the measurement of the bunch tails, but must be gated off during the passage of the core of the bunch to prevent the detector from saturating. An algorithm is then applied to combine the two measurements and correct for the detector dead time, after pulsing and pile‐up effects. Initial results from laboratory testing of this system are described in this paper. |
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| MOPE062 | Continuous Measurement and Control of Beta-Beating in the LHC | 1119 |
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The beta function has a fundamental impact on the LHC performance and on the functioning of its machine protection and collimation systems. A new beta-beat diagnostic system, prototyped at the SPS, has been used to verify the time-dependent variations of the LHC lattice with unprecedented 1% beta-beta resolution and at a measurement bandwidth of about 1 Hz. |
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| WEPEB041 | Commissioning and Initial Performance of the LHC Beam Based Feedback Systems | 2779 |
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The LHC deploys a comprehensive suite of beam-based feedbacks for safe and reliable machine operation. This contribution summarises the commissioning and early results of the LHC feedback control systems on orbit, tune, chromaticity, and energy. Their performance – strongly linked to the associated beam instrumentation, external beam perturbation sources and optics uncertainties – is evaluated and compared with the feedback design assumptions. |
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| WEPEB072 | First Operation of the Abort Gap Monitor for LHC | 2863 |
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The LHC beam dump system relies on extraction kickers that need 3 microseconds to rise up to their nominal field. As a consequence, particles crossing the kickers during this rise time will not be dumped properly. The proton population during this time should remain below quench and damage limits at all times. A specific monitor has been designed to measure the particle population in this gap. It is based on the detection of Synchrotron radiation using a gated photomultiplier. Since the quench and damage limits change with the beam energy, the acceptable population in the abort gap and the settings of the monitor must be adapted accordingly. This paper presents the design of the monitor, the calibration procedure and the detector performance with beam. |