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@inproceedings{gąsior:ibic2022-wep06, author = {M. Gąsior and T.E. Levens}, title = {{An LHC Protection System Based on Fast Beam Intensity Drops}}, & booktitle = {Proc. IBIC'22}, booktitle = {Proc. 11th Int. Beam Instrum. Conf. (IBIC'22)}, pages = {387--390}, eid = {WEP06}, language = {english}, keywords = {operation, Windows, FPGA, detector, emittance}, venue = {Kraków, Poland}, series = {International Beam Instrumentation Conference}, number = {11}, publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland}, month = {12}, year = {2022}, issn = {2673-5350}, isbn = {978-3-95450-241-7}, doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-WEP06}, url = {https://jacow.org/ibic2022/papers/wep06.pdf}, abstract = {{The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is protected against potentially dangerous beam losses by a distributed system based on some four thousand beam loss monitors. To provide an additional level of safety, the LHC has been equipped with a system to detect fast beam intensity drops and trigger a beam dump for potentially dangerous rates. This paper describes the architecture of the system and its signal processing, optimized to cope with dump thresholds in the order of 0.01 % of the circulating beam intensity. The performance of the installed system is presented based upon beam measurements.}}, }