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TY - CONF AU - Apollonio, A. AU - Gabourin, S. AU - Martin, C. AU - Mikulec, B. AU - Puccio, B. AU - Sanchez Alvarez, J.L. AU - Wollmann, D. AU - Zerlauth, M. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Michel, Peter ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Availability Studies for Linac4 and Machine Protection Requirements for Linac4 Commissioning J2 - Proc. of IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany, June 15-20, 2014 C1 - Dresden, Germany T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 5 LA - english AB - Linac4 is one of the key elements in the upgrade program of the LHC injector complex at CERN, assuring beams with higher bunch intensities and smaller emittance for the LHC and many other physics experiments on the CERN site. Due to the demand of continuous operation, the expected availability of Linac4 needs to be carefully studied already during its design phase. In this paper an overview of the relevant systems impacting on Linac4 machine availability is given: the various system failure modes are outlined as well as their impact on the total yearly machine downtime. Machine Protection Systems (MPS) play a significant role in reducing the risk associated to each failure mode and are therefore important for reaching the target availability. The Linac4 MPS requirements, with particular focus on the different commissioning phases, are discussed. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 3807 EP - 3809 KW - linac KW - operation KW - target KW - hardware KW - ion DA - 2014/07 PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-95450-132-8 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-THPRI020 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2014/papers/thpri020.pdf ER -