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TY - CONF AU - Gąsior, M. AU - Levens, T.E. ED - Forck, Peter ED - Wawrzyniak, Adriana ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Kowalski, Grzegorz W. ED - Cudek, Agnieszka (SOLARIS, Kraków TI - An LHC Protection System Based on Fast Beam Intensity Drops J2 - Proc. of IBIC2022, Kraków, Poland, 11-15 September 2022 CY - Kraków, Poland T2 - International Beam Instrumentation Conference T3 - 11 LA - english AB - 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. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 387 EP - 390 KW - operation KW - Windows KW - FPGA KW - detector KW - emittance DA - 2022/12 PY - 2022 SN - 2673-5350 SN - 978-3-95450-241-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-WEP06 UR - https://jacow.org/ibic2022/papers/wep06.pdf ER -