• M. Jonker, E.B. Holzer, S. Mallows, D. Manglunki, G. Morpurgo, Th. Otto, M. Sapinski, F. Tecker, J.A. Uythoven
  CERN, Geneva

The proposed Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is based on a two-beam acceleration scheme. The energy of high intensity, low energy drive beams is extracted and transferred to low intensity, high energy main beams. Direct ionization loss by the beam particles is the principal damage mechanism. The total charge gives a single drive beam-train a damage potential that is two orders of magnitude above the level causing structural damage in copper. For the main beam, it is the extreme charge density due to the microscopic beam size that gives it a damage potential of four orders of magnitude above the safe level. The machine protection system has to cope with a wide variety of failures, from real time failures (RF breakdowns, kickers misfiring), to slow equipment failures, to beam instabilities (caused by e.g. temperature drifts, slow ground motions). This paper discusses the baseline for the CLIC machine protection system which is based on passive, active and permit based protection. As the permit based protection depends on the measured performance of the previous pulse, the bootstrap procedure with safe beams and stepwise increase in beam intensities, is also discussed.

• M. Sapinski, B. Dehning, E.B. Holzer, M. Jonker, S. Mallows, Th. Otto
  CERN, Geneva
• C.P. Welsch
  Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed multi-TeV linear electron-positron collider being designed by a world-wide collaboration. It is based on a novel two-beam acceleration scheme in which two beams (drive and main beam) are placed in parallel to each other and energy is transferred from the drive beam to the main one. Beam losses on either of them can have catastrophic consequences for the machine because of high intensity (drive beam) or high energy and small emittance (main beam). In the framework of machine protection, a Beam Loss Monitoring system has to be put in place. This paper discusses the requirements for the beam loss system in terms of detector sensitivity, resolution, dynamic range and ability to distinguish losses originating from various sources. A particular attention is given to the two-beam module where the protection from beam losses is particularly challenging and important.