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IT07 Accelerator Physics Experiments with Beam Loss Monitors at BESSY instrumentation, diagnostics, BESSY 31
 
  • P. Kuske
    BESSY, Berlin, Germany
  The extended use of beam loss monitoring has led to a better understanding of the linear and non-linear physics involved in the single and multiple particle dynamics at BESSY. This knowledge has been used for improving the performance of the light source in terms of lifetime, beam stability, and stability of the energy. The key to these experiments are loss monitors placed at strategic locations of the ring with high sensitivity to Touschek or Coulomb scattered particles. Coulomb-scattering depends strongly on the transverse dynamics which is determined by the magnetic guiding fields. Losses occur primarily at the vertical aperture restrictions imposed by the flat insertion device vacuum chambers. Tune scan measurements clearly show resonances produced by the lattice magnets and by some of the insertion devices. Touschek scattering depends on the 3-dimensional electron density and the spins of the colliding particles. In transfer function type experiments these dependencies have been used to observe the effect of resonant transverse and longitudinal beam excitations. Loss monitors allow to detect excited head-tail and higher longitudinal modes which are invisible in the center of mass motion. Another application is the detection of the resonant destruction of the spin polarization of the ensemble of electrons. This is used routinely in order to determine the beam energy with high accuracy.  
 
CT04 Fibre Optical Radiation Sensing System for TESLA instrumentation, diagnostics, linear-collider, fibre-optics, TESLA, TTF 73
 
  • H. Henschel
    Fraunhofer-INT, Euskirchen, Germany
  • M. Körfer
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • F. Wulf
    HMI, Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany
  High energy accelerators generate ionising radiation along the beam-line and at target places. This radiation is related to beam losses or dark currents. The in-situ measurement of this ionising dose that is distributed over long distances or large areas requires a new monitor system. This paper presents first results and the concept of such a monitor system at the Tesla Test Facility.  
 
PS11 Test of Different Beam Loss Detectors at the GSI Heavy Ion Synchrotron instrumentation, diagnostics, GSI, synchrotron 129
 
  • P. Forck, T. Hoffmann
    GSI, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
  For the sensitive process of slow extraction from a synchrotron a reliable control of the beam losses is needed. We have tested several types of particle detectors mounted at the extraction path of the SIS: A BF-tube for pure neutron detection, a liquid and a plastic scintillator detecting neutrons, gammas and charged particles and an Argon filled ionization chamber mainly sensitive to charged particles. While the count rate is quite different, the time evolution of all detector signals during the spill are similar, but the plastic scintillator has the highest dynamic range. This type is going to be used for beam alignment.  
 
PM14 LHC Beam Loss Monitors instrumentation, diagnostics, LHC, collider, simulation 198
 
  • A.A. Garcia, B. Dehning, G. Ferioli, E. Gschwendtner
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a beam loss system will be installed for a continuous surveillance of particle losses. These beam particles deposit their energy in the super-conducting coils leading to temperature increase, possible magnet quenches and damages. Detailed simulations have shown that a set of six detectors outside the cryostats of the quadrupole magnets in the regular arc cells are needed to completely diagnose the expected beam losses and hence protect the magnets. To characterize the quench levels different loss rates are identified. In order to cover all possible quench scenarios the dynamic range of the beam loss monitors has to be matched to the simulated loss rates. For that purpose different detector systems (PIN-diodes and ionization chambers) are compared.  
 
DS06 Beam Loss Monitors
Discussion Session 6: Tuesday Morning (11:30--13:00 Hrs)
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  • K. Wittenburg
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  1. A very brief review of different beam loss monitors.
  2. Where can beam loss monitors help us?