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Ionisation losses and wire scanner heating: evaluation, possible solutions, application to the LHC.
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- C. Fischer
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Harmful heating mechanisms, resulting in wire breakage,
limit the utilisation of wire scanner monitors to below
a given beam intensity. This threshold depends on the
accelerator design parameters. In lepton colliders, the
short beam bunches generate strong wake-fields inside the
vacuum pipe which are sensed by the wire and are the
predominant current limit. These effects can be minimised
by a smooth design of the monitor cross section and by
choosing a wire made of an insulating material.
A second source of energy deposition inside the wire,
also present in hadron machines, and even when the wire
material is insulating, results from collision and ionisation
of the wire material atoms by the incident beam particles.
Calculations are presented to evaluate the efficiency of
this process and a possible solution is suggested which
may reduce this limitation. An example is given for the
case of the LHC.
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Ionisation profile monitor tests in the SPS
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- C. Fischer, J. Koopman
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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A beam profile monitor, from DESY, based on the ionisation
of the rest gas, was installed in the SPS in 1997. Horizontal
beam profiles obtained from the extracted positive ions are
presented. It is known that in this case some broadening affects
the signal, which limits the monitor resolution. This broadening
results from the transverse momentum that the ions gain
within the space charge field of the circulating beam.
In order to improve the resolution for LHC applications, the
monitor was modified during the 1998/99 winter stop. A magnetic
focusing was incorporated. The aim is to analyse the signal
provided by collecting the electrons, rather than the ions,
of the ionised rest gas. The details of this new set-up and the
expectations for the resolution limit will be compared to the
measurement results.
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