Author: Valette, M.
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TUPVA006 Lessons Learnt from the 2016 LHC Run and Prospects for HL-LHC Availability 2039
 
  • A. Apollonio, O. Rey Orozko, R. Schmidt, M. Valette, D. Wollmann, M. Zerlauth
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The LHC exhibited unprecedented availability during the 2016 proton run, producing about 40 fb-1 of integrated luminosity, surpassing the sum of production during the 4 previous years. This was achieved while running steadily with a peak luminosity above the design target of 1034 cm- 2s−1. Individual system performance and an increased experience operating the LHC were fundamental for these achievements, following the consolidations and improvements deployed during the Long Shutdown 1 and the Year End Technical Stop in 2015. The implications of this excellent performance in the context of the High Luminosity LHC are discussed in this paper, with the goal of defining the possible integrated luminosity reach of HL-LHC when considering the different operating conditions and the newly developed systems and technologies.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-TUPVA006  
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TUPVA022 Requirements for Crab Cavity System Availability in HL-LHC 2097
 
  • M. Valette, A. Apollonio, J.A. Uythoven, D. Wollmann
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Research supported by the HL-LHC project.
Crab Cavities will be installed in the High Luminosity LHC in order to increase the effective peak luminosity through a partial compensation of the geometric factor. This will allow extending the levelling time resulting in an increased production of integrated luminosity. Based on the availability of the LHC during 2016 operation, the expected yearly-integrated luminosity of the future HL-LHC was estimated using a Monte Carlo model. Crab cavity faults were added to the observed failure distribu-tions and their impact on integrated luminosity produc-tion as a function of fault time and fault frequency was studied. This allows identifying a breakeven point in luminosity production and defining minimum system availability requirements for the crab cavities to reach the design goal of 250 fb-1 of integrated luminosity per year.
 
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TUPVA023 Effect of Quench Heater and CLIQ Firing on the Circulating HL-LHC Beam 2101
 
  • M. Valette, L. Bortot, A.M. Fernandez Navarro, B. Lindstrom, R. Schmidt, A.P. Verweij, D. Wollmann
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Research supported by the HL-LHC project.
A small vertical orbit oscillation of the LHC beam was observed following a quench of a main dipole magnet. This effect was thought to be caused by the current dis-charged in the quench heater (QH) strips of the superconducting magnet and confirmed in dedicated experiments with beam in the LHC. Quench heater connection schemes with the largest effect have been identified for the LHC and its future HiLumi upgrade (HL-LHC). Furthermore, the impact on the beam following discharges of the Coupling-Loss Induced Quench (CLIQ) system, a novel technology to protect high current superconducting magnets in case of a quench, was studied to evaluate the possible failure cases.
 
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