NAPAC2019 - List of Authors (Heppner, G.)

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WEPLH11	RHIC Quench Protection Diode Radiation Damage	831
	K.A. Drees, O. Biletskyi, D. Bruno, A. Di Lieto, J. Escallier, G. Heppner, C. Mi, T. Samms, J. Sandberg BNL, Upton, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Each of RHIC’s superconducting magnets is protected by a silicon quench protection diode (QPD). In total, RHIC has over 800 diodes installed inside the cryostat close to the vacuum pipe~[RHICconfig]. After years of operation with high energy heavy ion beams we experienced a first permanently damaged QPD in the middle of our FY2016 Au Au run and a second damaged diode in the following year. In 2016 the run had to be interrupted by 19 days to replace the diode, in 2017 RHIC could still operate with a reduced ramping speed of the superconducting magnets. Both diodes were replaced and examined "cold" as well as "warm". This paper reports on what we have learned so far about the conditions leading up to the damage as well as the damage itself.
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About •	paper received ※ 23 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 05 September 2019 issue date ※ 08 October 2019
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RHIC Quench Protection Diode Radiation Damage

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K.A. Drees, O. Biletskyi, D. Bruno, A. Di Lieto, J. Escallier, G. Heppner, C. Mi, T. Samms, J. Sandberg
BNL, Upton, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Each of RHIC’s superconducting magnets is protected by a silicon quench protection diode (QPD). In total, RHIC has over 800 diodes installed inside the cryostat close to the vacuum pipe~[RHICconfig]. After years of operation with high energy heavy ion beams we experienced a first permanently damaged QPD in the middle of our FY2016 Au Au run and a second damaged diode in the following year. In 2016 the run had to be interrupted by 19 days to replace the diode, in 2017 RHIC could still operate with a reduced ramping speed of the superconducting magnets. Both diodes were replaced and examined "cold" as well as "warm". This paper reports on what we have learned so far about the conditions leading up to the damage as well as the damage itself.

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-WEPLH11

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paper received ※ 23 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 05 September 2019 issue date ※ 08 October 2019

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